Parliamentary elections were held in the Georgian SSR on 28 October 1990, with a second round on 11 November. They were the first free parliamentary election in since 1919

Georgian legislative election, 1919

Constituent Assembly elections were held in the Democratic Republic of Georgia between 14 and 16 February 1919. The result was a victory for the Social Democratic Labour Party of Georgia, which won 81% of the vote, and 109 of the 130 seats...

, and saw Round Table-Free Georgia emerge as the largest party in Parliament, with 155 of the 250 seats. Voter turnout was 69.9%.

Round Table-Free Georgia MP Zviad Gamsakhurdia

Zviad Gamsakhurdia

Zviad Gamsakhurdia was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era...

 was elected by the Congress as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on 14 November, effectively the leader of Gergia.

The elected parliament was responsible for some of the most important decisions in the modern Georgian history, such as the declaration of independence from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, the adoption of the first Constitution of the Republic of Georgia

Constitution of Georgia (country)

The Constitution of Georgia is the supreme law of Georgia. It was approved by the Parliament of Georgia on August 24 1995. It entered into force on October 17...

, as well as the revocation of South Ossetia

South Ossetia

South Ossetia or Tskhinvali Region is a disputed region and partly recognized state in the South Caucasus, located in the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic....

n autonomy and the subsequent prosecution of the war in South Ossetia.

It was the first and only free election to the Congress of Soviets of Georgian SSR. The Congress ceased functioning after the coup d'état of 6 January 1992 and some of its members took part in the subsequent civil war

Georgian Civil War

The Georgian Civil War consisted of inter-ethnic and intranational conflicts in the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia , as well as the violent military coup d'etat of December 21, 1991 - January 6, 1992 against the first democratically elected President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia and his...

. The Parliament of Georgia

Parliament of Georgia

Parliament of Georgia is the supreme legislature of Georgia. It is unicameral and has 150 members, known as deputies, from which 75 members are proportional representatives and 75 are elected through single-member district plurality system, representing their constituencies...

 was re-instituted in March 1992 as the "State Council" and the fresh elections

Georgian general election, 1992

General elections were held in Georgia on 11 October 1992, in which voters elected both the Parliament and the Chairman of Parliament, who also acted as Head of State as the President, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was in exile after being outsted in a coup in January...

 were held on 4 August of the same year.

Results

Party	Constituency			National			Total seats
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
Round Table-Free Georgia			74	1,248,111	54.0	81	155
Communist Party of Georgia Communist Party of Georgia Communist Party of Georgia is a communist political party in Georgia. The party was founded on February 23, 1992 as the Socialist Labour Party. It was registered at the Ministry of Justice on February 27, 1998. In the 1992 elections it won four MPs. During the period 1994-1995 it maintained a...			20	683,824	29.6	44	64
Concord, Peace, Revival Bloc			0	80,262	3.5	0	0
Freedom Bloc			0	71,602	3.1	0	0
All-Georgian Rustaveli Society			1	53,673	2.3	0	1
People's Front People's Front (Georgia) People's Front is a non-Marxist political organization in the Republic of Georgia. This party was founded in 1989, in Tbilisi. Chairman of the organization is a noted Georgian scholar, Professor Nodar Natadze....			12	43,771	1.9	0	12
Democratic Georgia Bloc			4	40,769	1.8	0	4
Liberation and Economic Revival Bloc			1	33,687	1.5	0	1
Social Democrat Party of Georgia			0	32,699	1.4	0	0
Progressive Party of Georgia			0	15,496	0.7	0	0
Political Union of Citizens-All-Georgian Farmers Union			0	8,029	0.4	0	0
Independents			9
9
Vacant
4
0	4
Invalid/blank votes
84,797
Total			125	2,396,720	100	125	250
Source: Nohlen et al