Election Name: | 1992 Malian presidential election |
Country: | Mali |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1985 Malian general election |
Previous Year: | 1985 |
Next Election: | 1997 Malian presidential election |
Next Year: | 1997 |
Election Date: | 12 April 1992 (first round) 26 April 1992 (second round) |
Image1: | Konare27022007.jpg |
Nominee1: | Alpha Oumar Konaré |
Party1: | Alliance for Democracy in Mali |
Colour1: | FF0000 |
Popular Vote1: | 655,555 |
Percentage1: | 69.0% |
Nominee2: | Tiéoulé Mamadou Konaté |
Party2: | US-RDA |
Popular Vote2: | 294,524 |
Percentage2: | 31.0% |
Colour2: | 000000 |
President | |
Posttitle: | President-elect |
Before Election: | Amadou Toumani Touré |
Before Party: | Independent politician |
After Election: | Alpha Oumar Konaré |
After Party: | Alliance for Democracy in Mali |
Presidential elections were held in Mali on 12 April 1992, with a second round on 26 April. They were the first presidential elections in the country to feature more than one candidate following the reintroduction of multi-party democracy after a coup the previous year. The coup had followed a student protest in March 1991 during which troops defending President Moussa Traoré fired and killed numerous protesters.[1] The result was a victory for Alpha Oumar Konaré of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali, who defeated Tiéoulé Mamadou Konaté of the Sudanese Union – African Democratic Rally.[2]