The elections to the 12th convocation of the Supreme Council of the Tajik SSR took place on February 25 1990. A total of 230 deputies were elected to the Supreme Council of the Republic. The elections took place amid the 1990 Dushanbe riots, which had relatively subsided by election day. It was these riots that became some of the first sparks of the civil war, which lasted until 1997.
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As a result of the elections, 221 seats (96%) were received by the Communist Party of the Tajik SSR (leader Qahhor Mahkamov). The ranks of the Communist Party included several de facto opposition candidates who entered the republican parliament thanks to tough competition with other communists and numerous petitions and rallies of voters who monitored the voting process. 9 seats in the Supreme Council went to independent candidates, who received a total of 4% of the votes. Since at that time in the Tajik SSR only the Communist Party was a legal and officially registered party, other parties (for example, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, people's movement "Rastokhez") that existed in the republic did not have the right to participate, and members of these political forces participated in the elections as independent candidates[1][2].
Communist Party of Tajikistan (221)
independents (9)
After the independence of Tajikistan on September 9, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR was renamed the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Tajikistan and continued to function until the first parliamentary election in the history of independent Tajikistan.
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