1991 Mauritian general election

1991 Mauritian general election

15 September 1991 (1991-09-15)

All 62 directly elected seats in the Legislative Assembly
(and up to 8 BLS seats)
Turnout85.41% ( 3.34 pp)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Anerood Jugnauth Navin Ramgoolam
Party MSM PTr
Alliance MSM/MMM PTrPMSD
Alliance seats 57 7
Popular vote 944,521 670,631
Alliance % 55.36% 39.30%

Alliance result by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Anerood Jugnauth
MSM

Subsequent Prime Minister

Anerood Jugnauth
MSM

General elections were held in Mauritius on 15 September 1991. Three main parties gained seats in this election: the Militant Socialist Movement, Mauritian Militant Movement and the Labour Party. The MSM formed an alliance with the MMM and the Labour Party formed an alliance with the Mauritian Social Democrat Party (PMSD). On 17 September 1991, results showed that MSM-MMM won 57 out of 66 seats. This gave 95% of seats to MSM-MMM leader Anerood Jugnauth and 5% to Labour Party-PMSD leader Navin Ramgoolam.