1991 Transnistrian presidential election

1991 Transnistrian presidential election
1 December 1991
 
Nominee Igor Smirnov Grigore Mărăcuță
Party Independent Republic
Running mate Alexandru Caraman Boris Akulov
Percentage 65.4% 33.4%
Elected President

Igor Smirnov
Independent

Presidential elections were held in the breakaway republic of Transnistria on 1 December, 1991. These were the first such elections in the newly founded Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, won by Igor Smirnov, one of the country's founders. Smirnov faced two opponents: Grigore Mărăcuţă and Grigoriy Blagodarniy. Mărăcuţă would become an ally of Smirnov and was speaker of the Supreme Council until 2005. According to an article by the ethnic Russian researcher from Moldova Alla Skvortsova from 2002, "polls and elections in the PMR may to some extent have been rigged".

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