Salmin Amour (born 1948) is a Tanzanian politician who was President of Zanzibar from 25 October 1990 to 8 November 2000. He was elected in 1990 as the sole candidate and received 98% of the votes.[1] In Tanzania's first multi-party elections in 1995, Amour was accused of rigging the Zanzibari Presidential election by opposition leader Seif Shariff Hamad.[2]