During the presidential election in Tatarstan in 2015, Rustam Minnikhanov scored a very impressive victory, gaining 94.4% of the vote.
In 1993, former President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev experienced a triumph - 98% of voters voted for him in the presidential elections on October 3.
On 25 February 1996, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, one of the candidates for the presidency of Equatorial Guinea at that time, got an impressive 97.85% of the vote.
The well-known Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was happy to have 99.5% of the vote in the elections on October 15, 1995. Later, in the 2002 elections, he received a record 100% from the voters. The only nuance - the elections were held on an uncontested basis.
The residents of the Republic of Yemen in 2012 also had no choice - there was only one candidate for the presidency: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. So, on February 21, 2012, this candidate got 99.8% of the vote.
President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh won 100% of the vote in the elections held on April 8, 2005. The opposition boycotted the elections.
Syria's current president, Bashar al-Assad, garnered an impressive percentage of electoral votes in elections in May 2007 - 97.62%. However, Asad did not have to boast the presence of competitors - he was the only candidate.
Emomali Rahmon, the Tajik president, won 96.9% of the vote in the 1999 elections.
In 1993, on August 25, Gnassingbe Eyadema got 96.5% of the vote in the presidential election in Togo.
The eccentric politician Mikheil Saakashvili scored 96.27% of the vote in elections in Georgia on January 4, 2004.
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow felt the love of the voters in the presidential elections in February 2012 - 97.14% of the population voted for him.
At the presidential elections in Guinea in 2003, Lansana Conte scored an impressive 95.25% of the vote. Today, the president of this state is his son.
Islom Karimov, the former president of Uzbekistan, won 91.9% of the vote in the 2000 elections.
Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, in the elections in 2011, was supported the majority of voters - 95.55% of voters chose him in the ballots.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame got 95.1% of the vote in the 2003 elections.
President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe won 92.7% of the vote in the spring 1996 elections. It is noteworthy that Mugabe is the oldest president in the world today. The politician, who is 93 years old, is still in power in his country.
Finally, President of Cameroon Paul Bahia received 92.57% of the vote to his advantage in the October 1997 elections. He continues to hold office in Cameroon to this day.
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