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1971 Malawian general election

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Field	Value
country	Malawi
type	parliamentary
election_date	17 April 1971
previous_election	1964 Nyasaland general election
previous_year	1964
next_election	1976 Malawian general election
next_year	1976
seats_for_election	All 64 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	34
image1	Dr HK Banda, first president of Malawi.jpg
leader1	Hastings Banda
party1	Malawi Congress Party
last_election1	50
seats1	56
seat_change1	6
map_image	1971 Malawian parliamentary election - Results by constituency.svg
map_caption	Results by constituency

General elections were due to be held in Malawi on 17 April 1971, the first since the pre-independence elections in 1964. The Malawi Congress Party had been the only legally permitted party in the country since 1966. Each of the 60 constituencies had three to five candidates nominated by party committees. The committees then submitted the candidates' names to President Hastings Banda, who selected a single candidate for each seat. All prospective candidates had to declare their allegiance to Banda before being allowed to stand.

As there was only one candidate for each constituency, no voting actually took place on election day, and the candidates selected by Banda were elected unopposed. However, only 56 of the seats were filled, and following the election, Banda nominated another eight members to the National Assembly.

Results

Aftermath

In July, two months after the elections and five years to the day that Malawi had become a republic, the National Assembly declared Banda president for life. However, according to a Central Intelligence Agency handbook, this move merely codified a state of affairs that had existed since 1966, as Banda would have been the only candidate for president at elections due later in 1971.

References

[http://www.eisa.org.za/WEP/malonepartyrule.htm Malawi: Era of One Party Rule (1964-1992)] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-01-25 EISA)
(1972). "Hronika međunarodnih događaja 1971". [[Institute of International Politics and Economics]].
[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/MALAWI_1971_E.PDF Malawi] Inter-Parliamentary Union
(2023). "Malawi (1964-present)".
(1971). "Malawi Handbook". [[Central Intelligence Agency]].

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