| Election Name: | 2017 Artsakhian presidential election |
| Country: | Artsakh |
| Type: | presidential |
| Vote Type: | electoral |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2012 Nagorno-Karabakh presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 2012 |
| Next Election: | 2020 Artsakhian general election |
| Next Year: | 2020 |
| Votes For Election: | Two-thirds of votes from the 33 National Assembly members required |
| Nominee1: | Bako Sahakyan |
| Party1: | Democratic Party of Artsakh |
| Electoral Vote1: | 28 |
| Percentage1: | 87.5% |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Bako Sahakyan |
| Before Party: | Independent politician |
| After Election: | Bako Sahakyan |
| After Party: | Democratic Party of Artsakh |
| Party2: | Movement 88 |
| Electoral Vote2: | 4 |
| Percentage2: | 12.5% |
Indirect presidential elections were held in the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh on 19 July 2017.[1] [2] The incumbent, Bako Sahakyan, was elected to a third term.[3]
After a constitutional referendum in 2017, the country is transitioning from a semi-presidential system to a presidential system. As a result, presidential elections were delayed until 2020 in order to be held alongside legislative elections.[4] In July 2017, the National Assembly elected the President for the next three years until the general election.
Two candidates were registered.
The Democratic Party of Artsakh nominated the incumbent president Bako Sahakyan.[5] [6] Free Motherland and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation also supported the incumbent.
While, Movement 88 nominated former Stepanakert Mayor Eduard Aghabekyan.[7]
28 members of National Assembly voted for Bako Sahakyan, 4 of them voted for Eduard Aghabekyan, while one of the MPs abstained.