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Russian legislative election, 1990

Legislative elections were held in the Russian SFSR on March 4, 1990. It was the first free parliamentary election in Russia since 1917. A total of 1068 deputies were elected to the Congress of People's Deputies of RSFSR for a term of five years, 86% of them from the Communist Party^[1], the rest were non-partisan. The elected Congress began its first session on May 16. Among the elected deputies from the CPSU was Boris Yeltsin, who was then elected by the Congress as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR, effectively the leader of Russia^[2]. Many CPSU members, including Yeltsin, subsequently resigned from CPSU. The CPSU was temporarily banned by Yeltsin in August 1991, and the party collapsed completely by December of the same year.

It was the first and only free election to the Congress of People's Deputies. The Congress was dissolved by Yeltsin in October 1993 during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 and replaced with Federal Assembly of Russia.

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