1990 Ivorian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Ivory Coast on 28 October 1990. They were the first since the reintroduction of multi-party democracy a few months earlier. For the first time, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president since independence in 1960, faced an opponent in longtime dissident Laurent Gbagbo, who had just returned from exile two years earlier. Nonetheless, Houphouët-Boigny was elected to a seventh five-year term, winning 81.68% of the vote. Voter turnout was 69.2%.

Houphouët-Boigny died on 7 December 1993, three years into his term. Per the Constitution, National Assembly president Henri Konan Bédié served as acting president for the balance of Houphouët-Boigny's term. Bédié was elected president in his own right in 1995.

Results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Félix Houphouët-Boigny	Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally	2,445,365	81.68
	Laurent Gbagbo	Ivorian Popular Front	548,441	18.32
Total			2,993,806	100.00
Valid votes			2,993,806	98.19
Invalid/blank votes			55,327	1.81
Total votes			3,049,133	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			4,408,808	69.16
Source: Nohlen et al.