General elections were held in Ethiopia on 14 June 1987 for seats in its ''

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''. This was the first election since Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed in the Ethiopian Revolution as well as the first–and as it turned out, only–election under the

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, which replaced the

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regime with the

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(PDRE).

Background

The new Ethiopian Constitution, adopted by a referendum held on 1 February 1987, provided for a national parliament, the ''Shengo'', as the nominal supreme organ of state power. The date of the general elections was officially announced only two days in advance. In the running for the Shengo's 835 seats were some 2,500 candidates, mostly nominated by the

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Workers' Party of Ethiopia, the country's only legally permitted party.Ethiopia Parliamentary Chamber: Elections held in 1995
PARLINE database (accessed 20 October 2009) The WPE won 795 seats, with pro-WPE independents taking the remaining 40 seats. Voter turnout was reported to be 90.5%.

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, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p. 382 In May 1991, four years into the Shengo's five-year term, the PDRE was overthrown by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front. Following a three-year transition period, elections for a Constituent Assembly were held in

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Results

References

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