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1976 United Nations Security Council election

Election to the United Nations Security Council

Field	Value
election_name	1976 United Nations Security Council election
country	United Nations
type	legislative
ongoing	no
previous_election	1975 United Nations Security Council election
previous_year	1975
next_election	1977 United Nations Security Council election
next_year	1977
seats_for_election	5 (of 10) non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council
election_date	21 October 1976
map_image	SC Membership 1977.png
title	Members
before_election	(Africa)
(Asia)
(LatAm&Car)
(WEOG)
(WEOG)
posttitle	New Members
after_election

(Asia) (LatAm&Car) (WEOG) (WEOG)

The 1976 United Nations Security Council election was held on 21 October 1976 during the Thirty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, India, Mauritius, and Venezuela, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1977. Both Mauritius and West Germany were elected members of the council for the first time.

Rules

The Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.

In accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:

One for African countries (held by Tanzania)
One for countries from the Asian Group (now called the Asia-Pacific Group) (held by Japan)
One for Latin America and the Caribbean (held by Guyana)
Two for the Western European and Others Group (held by Italy and Sweden)

To be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.

Result

The election was managed by then-President of the United Nations General Assembly Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe of Sri Lanka. The United Nations had 146 member states at this time (for a timeline of UN membership, see Enlargement of the United Nations). Delegates were to write the names of the five member states they wished elected on the ballot papers. Voting was conducted on a single ballot. Ballots containing more states from a certain region than seats allocated to that region were invalidated.

Member
Round 1
	VEN
	West Germany
	AUT
	GRE
	ESP
	invalid ballots
	abstentions
	required majority
	ballot papers

References

United Nations Security Council. (2008). "Repertoire of the practice of the Security Council". United Nations Publications.
Conforti, Benedetto. (2005). "The law and practice of the United Nations". Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
[https://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter5.shtml Charter of the United Nations, Article 23]
[https://undocs.org/A/RES/1991(XVIII) Resolution 1991 A (XVIII)], dated 1963-12-17, in force 1965-08-31.
[http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=62791 "Asian group of nations at UN changes its name to Asia-Pacific group"], ''Radio New Zealand International'', 2011-08-31.
"40th Plenary Meeting". United Nations.

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