Presidential elections were held in Turkmenistan on 12 February 2012.

[1] They were Turkmenistan's fourth presidential elections and decided who would be the country's president for the next five years.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow won with 97% of the vote.

[8] During the campaign many of the candidates running against the incumbent president expressed their support for him, thus giving rise to suspicions that his victory was more or less guaranteed.

[3] According to an expert from the Chatham House, "the vote [was] a democratic sham" and an example of "faux democracy".