FIS sweeps the first round of Algeria's 1991 election

On 26 December 1991 the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) won the first round of Algeria's first multiparty legislative election in a landslide — 188 seats to the ruling FLN's 16 — and stood poised to take an absolute majority in the 16 January 1992 run-off, which would have made it the first Islamist movement to win power at the ballot box in the Arab world.

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Islamic Salvation Front

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). FIS sweeps the first round of Algeria's 1991 election [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/d6da5221-4908-4bf7-8066-df7ff503f9ef

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "FIS sweeps the first round of Algeria's 1991 election." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/d6da5221-4908-4bf7-8066-df7ff503f9ef.

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@misc{tayyar-event-d6da5221-4908-4bf7-8066-df7ff503f9ef,
  title     = {{FIS sweeps the first round of Algeria's 1991 election}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/d6da5221-4908-4bf7-8066-df7ff503f9ef},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 1991-12-26. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 1991-12-26. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.