1994 Ethiopian Constituent Assembly election

1994 Ethiopian Constituent Assembly election
5 June 1994
All 544 seats in the Council of Representatives
273 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
OPDO 179 +179
ANDM 134 +134
TPLF 37 +37
EPRDF 13 +13
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Elections for a Constituent Assembly were held in Ethiopia on 5 June 1994 in order to form a body to draw up a new constitution. They were the first elections after the overthrow of the Mengistu regime at the end of the Ethiopian Civil War in 1991, and the first ever multi-party elections in the country; previous elections had either been non-partisan or one-party. The results saw the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and its allies win 463 of the 544 seats. Voter turnout was 87.5%.

The Assembly finished drafting the new constitution in December, and it went into effect in August 1995.

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