| Candidates (Nationality) | Nominated by |
| African States (8 seats): | |
| 1. Comissario Afonso, Pedro (Mozambique)* | Mozambique |
| 2. Dugard, Christopher John Robert (South Africa)* | South Africa |
| 3. Fomba, Salifou (Mali)* | Mali |
| 4. Hassouna, Hussein A. (Egypt) | Egypt |
| 5. Kamto, Maurice (Cameroon)* | Cameroon |
| 6. Kemicha, Fathi (Tunisia) | Tunisia |
| 7. Wako, Amos S. (Kenya) | Kenya |
| 8. Ojo, Bayo (Nigeria) | Nigeria |
| Not elected: | |
| 1. El-Murtadi Suleiman, Abdelrazeg (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) | |
| 2. Pambou Tchivounda, Guillaume (Gabon)* | |
| Asian States (7 seats): | |
| 1. Al-Marri, Ali Mohsen Fetais (Qatar)* | Qatar |
| 2. Hmoud, Mahmoud D. (Jordan) | Jordan |
| 3. Perera, A. Rohan (Sri Lanka) | Sri Lanka |
| 4. Singh, Narinder (India) | India United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Canada |
| 5. Wisnumurti, Nugroho (Indonesia) | Indonesia |
| 6. Xue, Hanqin (China)* | China |
| 7. Yamada, Chusei (Japan)* | Japan |
| Not elected: | |
| 1. Buena, Arturo B. (Philippines) | |
| 2. Daoudi, Riad (Syrian Arab Republic)* | |
| 3. Momtaz, Djamchid (Iran, Islamic Republic of)* | |
| 4. Ziadé, Nassib G. (Lebanon) | |
Eastern European States (4 seats): |
|
| 1. Galicki, Zdzislaw W. (Poland)* | Poland |
| 2. Kolodkin, Roman Anatolyevitch (Russian Federation)* | Russian Federation |
| 3. Melescanu, Teodor Viorel (Romania)* | Romania |
| 4. Petric, Ernest (Slovenia) | Slovenia |
| Latin American and Caribbean States (7 Seats) | |
| 1. Candioti, Enrique J.A. (Argentina)* | Argentina |
| 2. Niehaus, Bernd H. (Costa Rica)* | Costa Rica |
| 3. Saboia, Gilberto Vergne (Brazil) | Brazil |
| 4. Valencia-Ospina, Eduardo (Colombia)* | Colombia |
| 5. Vargas Carreño, Edmundo (Chile) | Chile |
| 6. Vasciannie, Stephen C. (Jamaica) | Jamaica |
| 7. Vázquez-Bermudez, Marcelo (Ecuador) | Ecuador |
| Not elected: | |
| 1. López Contreras, Carlos (Honduras) | |
| Western European and other States (8 seats) | |
| 1. Brownlie, Ian (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)* | United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland Canada India New Zealand |
| 2. Caflisch, Lucius (Switzerland) | Switzerland |
| 3. Escarameia, Paula Ventura de Carvalho (Portugal)* | Portugal |
| 4. Gaja, Giorgio (Italy)* | Italy |
| 5. Jacobsson, Marie G. (Sweden) | Sweden Denmark Finland Iceland Norway |
| 6. McRae, Donald M. (Canada) | Canada New Zealand Australia Mexico United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland India |
| 7. Nolte, Georg (Germany) | Germany France |
| 8. Pellet, A lain (France)* | France Germany Slovak Republic |
| Not elected: | |
| 1. Matheson, Michael J. (United States of America)* | |
| 2. Economides, Constantine P. (Greece)* | |
| 3. Versan, Rauf (Turkey) |