A presidential election was held in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

 on 23 March 1990 alongside simultaneous parliamentary elections

Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 1990

Parliamentary elections were held in Zimbabwe on 23 March 1990, alongside simultaneous presidential elections. They were the first elections to be contested under the amended constitution of 1987, which established an executive presidency and abolished the Senate. They were also the first ever...

. It was the first time that the president had been popularly elected, following the creation of an executive presidency

Executive president

An executive president is a president who exercises active executive power in a certain systems of government. Executive presidents are active in day-to-day governance of a nation, and are usually popularly elected....

 in 1987. The election was contested by the incumbent Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...

, and former minister Edgar Tekere

Edgar Tekere

Edgar Zivanai Tekere was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a president of the Zimbabwe African National Union who organised the party during the Lancaster House talks and served in government before his popularity as a potential rival to Robert Mugabe caused their...

. Mugabe won, claiming over 80% of the vote.

There were 4,799,333 voters registered for the election.

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Robert Mugabe Robert Mugabe Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...	ZANU-PF	2,026,976	83.05%
Edgar Tekere Edgar Tekere Edgar Zivanai Tekere was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a president of the Zimbabwe African National Union who organised the party during the Lancaster House talks and served in government before his popularity as a potential rival to Robert Mugabe caused their...	Zimbabwe Unity Movement Zimbabwe Unity Movement The Zimbabwe Unity Movement, was a short lived political movement in Zimbabwe. It served as a successor and link to the Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe...	413,840	16.95%
Invalid		146,388	-
Total (Turnout: 53.9%)		2,587,204	100%
Source: African Elections database