Parliamentary elections were held in the
Latvian SSR
The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR), also known as Soviet Latvia or simply Latvia, was a federated republic within the Soviet Union, and formally one of its 16 (later 15) constituent Republics of the Soviet Union, republics. Th ...
on 18 March 1990.
Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An exp ...
& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1122 It was the first free parliamentary election in Latvia since
1931 and saw 201 deputies elected to the
Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR
The Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR ( Latvian: ''Latvijas PSR Augstākā Padome''; Russian: Верховный Совет Латвийской ССР, ''Verkhovnyy Sovet Latvyyskoy SSR'') was the supreme soviet (main legislative institution ...
, 170 of them in the first round. Run-off elections were held on 25 March, 1 April and 29 April. The
Popular Front of Latvia won over two-thirds of the vote. Unlike its Estonian and Lithuanian counterparts, the
Latvian Communist Party did not separate from the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
" Hymn of the Bolshevik Party"
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. Nonetheless, on 3 May 1990, the new Supreme Soviet re-elected the
Communist Party
A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of '' The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel ...
member
Anatolijs Gorbunovs
Anatolijs Gorbunovs, also known as Anatoly Valeryanovich Gorbunov ( rus, Анато́лий Валериа́нович Горбуно́в, born 10 February 1942, in Pilda parish, Ludza municipality, Latvia), is a Latvian politician who served ...
as its chairman, effectively the leader of Latvia. He subsequently resigned from the party, and a year later the Communist Party was banned by the parliament.
The elected parliament was responsible for some of the most important decisions in modern
Latvian history, such as the
declaration of renewed independence from the Soviet Union.
It was the first and only free election to the Supreme Soviet of Latvian SSR. The next parliament was elected as ''
Saeima
The Saeima () is the parliament of the Republic of Latvia. It is a unicameral parliament consisting of 100 members who are elected by proportional representation, with seats allocated to political parties which gain at least 5% of the popular v ...
'' in 1993.
Voting was held on the same day as an
election in the Estonian SSR and Latvian municipal elections.
Results
References
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Parliamentary elections in Latvia
Latvia
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Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
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