1986 Gabonese presidential election

1986 Gabonese presidential election

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Turnout	99.95%
Candidate Omar Bongo Party PDG Popular vote 903,739 Percentage 99.97%
President before election Omar Bongo PDG Elected President Omar Bongo PDG

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Presidential elections were held in Gabon on 9 November 1986. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) as the sole legal party. PDG leader and incumbent president Omar Bongo was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed.^[1] Voter turnout was reported to be 99.9%.^[2]

These were the last one-party elections in Gabon, as the country returned to multi-party democracy in 1990.