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Presidential elections were held in Ivory Coast on 28 October 1990. They were the first since the reintroduction of multi-party democracy a few months earlier. For the first time, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president since independence in 1960, faced an opponent in longtime dissident Laurent Gbagbo, who had just returned from exile two years earlier. Nonetheless, Houphouët-Boigny was elected to a seventh five-year term, winning 81.68% of the vote. Voter turnout was 69.2%.[1]
Houphouët-Boigny died on 7 December 1993, three years into his term. Per the Constitution, National Assembly president Henri Konan Bédié served as acting president for the balance of Houphouët-Boigny's term. Bédié was elected president in his own right in 1995.
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