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Ethiopian Constituent Assembly election, 1994

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Ethiopian Constituent Assembly election, 1994

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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