Presidential elections were held in the breakaway republic of

Transnistria Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a Landlocked country, landlocked Transnistria conflict#International recognition of Transnistria, breakaway state internationally recogn ...

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 Grigory Stepanovich Marakutsa (, , mo-Cyrl, Григоре Степанович Мэрэкуцэ); born 15 October 1942 in Teiu, Transnistria, Teiu, Grigoriopol District) is a Transnistrian politician and member of the Parliament of Transnistri ...

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".Alla Skvortsova, "The Cultural and Social Makeup of Moldova: A Bipolar or Dispersed Society?", in Pal Kolsto (ed.), ''National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies'' (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), p. 176.

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