| Country: | Gabon |
| Type: | presidential |
| Election Date: | 5 December 1993 |
| Previous Election: | 1986 Gabonese presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 1986 |
| Next Election: | 1998 Gabonese presidential election |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
| Turnout: | 88.08% |
| Image1: | Omar Bongo 1973.jpg |
| Candidate1: | Omar Bongo |
| Party1: | Gabonese Democratic Party |
| Popular Vote1: | 213,793 |
| Percentage1: | 51.18% |
| Candidate2: | Paul Mba Abessole |
| Party2: | RNB |
| Popular Vote2: | 110,747 |
| Percentage2: | 26.51% |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Omar Bongo |
| Before Party: | Gabonese Democratic Party |
| After Election: | Omar Bongo |
| After Party: | Gabonese Democratic Party |
Presidential elections were held in Gabon on 5 December 1993, the first time more than one candidate had contested a presidential election in the country. Incumbent President Omar Bongo, in power since 1967, sought a five-year term against twelve other candidates. According to official results Bongo won in the first round with 51.2% of the vote. However, the main opposition leader, Paul Mba Abessole, alleged fraud, claimed victory, and threatened to form a rival government. Riots in 1994 practically brought the country to a standstill until Bongo agreed to attend a peace conference with opposition groups in September 1994, in which a coalition government was formed until the 1996 parliamentary election, which Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party won by a landslide.[1]
Bongo was supported by the "New Alliance", a coalition that included the Association for Socialism in Gabon, the Circle of Liberal Reformers, the Gabonese Socialist Union and the People's Unity Party.[2]
Based on exit polling at the time of the election, the news organization Reuters placed Bongo's share of the vote at about 37%.[3] Voter turnout was 88.1%.[4]