Election Chronology in Eastern Europe 1989-1991
Between the spring of 1989 and the spring of 1991 every Communist or former communist Eastern European country, and in the case of the USSR and Yugoslavia every constituent republic, held competitive parliamentary elections for the first time in many decades. Some elections were only partly free, others fully democratic. The chronology below gives the details of these historic elections; the date is the first day of voting as several elections were spilt over several days for run-off contests:
- USSR - 26 March 1989
- Poland - 4 June 1989
- Turkmenistan - 7 January 1990
- Uzbekistan - 18 February 1990
- Lithuania - 24 February 1990
- Moldova- 25 February 1990
- Kyrgyzstan - 25 February 1990
- Tajikistan - 25 February 1990
- Belarus - 3 March 1990
- Russia - 4 March 1990
- Ukraine - 4 March 1990
- East Germany - 18 March 1990
- Estonia - 18 March 1990
- Latvia - 18 March 1990
- Hungary - 25 March 1990
- Kazakhstan - 25 March 1990
- Slovenia - 8 April 1990
- Croatia - 24 April 1990
- Romania - 20 May 1990
- Armenia - 20 May 1990
- Czechoslovakia - 8 June 1990
- Bulgaria - 10 June 1990
- Azerbaijan - 30 September 1990
- Georgia - 28 October 1990
- Macedonia - 11 November 1990
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - 18 November 1990
- Serbia - 8 December 1990
- Montenegro - 9 December 1990
- Albania - 7 April 1991
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