| Election Name: | 1989 Czechoslovak presidential election |
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1985 Czechoslovak presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 1985 |
| Next Election: | 1990 Czechoslovak presidential election |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
| Election Date: | 29 December 1989 |
| Nominee1: | Václav Havel |
| Party1: | Civic Forum |
| Electoral Vote1: | 323 |
| Percentage1: | 100% |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Gustáv Husák |
| Before Party: | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
| After Election: | Václav Havel |
| After Party: | Civic Forum |
The 1989 Czechoslovak presidential election was held on 29 December. Václav Havel became the first non-communist president of Czechoslovakia since 1948. Election was held following the Velvet Revolution.[1] [2]
Havel was eventually the only candidate to participate in the election.[3]
| Date | Čestmír Císař | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 December[5] | 11% | 8% | 1% | 1% | 1% | |
| 10 December[6] | 75% | 14% | 2% | 2% | n/a | |
| 19 December[7] | 0.5 | n/a | 80% | 8.5% | 1% |
Havel received votes of all 183 members of House of the People and 140 members of House of Nations.[8]