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1978 Malawian general election

Field	Value
country	Malawi
type	parliamentary
election_date	29 June 1978
previous_election	1976 Malawian general election
previous_year	1976
next_election	1983 Malawian general election
next_year	1983
seats_for_election	All 102 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	51
image1	Dr HK Banda, first president of Malawi.jpg
leader1	Hastings Banda
party1	Malawi Congress Party
last_election1	70
seats1	87
seat_change1	17

General elections were held in Malawi on 29 June 1978. As the country had become a one-party state in 1966, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) was the sole legal party at the time. However, unlike the two previous elections, in which MCP leader and president for life Hastings Banda had selected a single candidate for each constituency, there was more than one nominated candidate in 47 of the 87 constituencies. As a result, voting took place on election day for the first time since the 1961 elections in what was then the British protectorate of Nyasaland.

All prospective candidates were vetted by Banda after being nominated by MCP committees, and had to declare their allegiance to Banda in order to be allowed to stand. Candidates ran unopposed in 33 of the remaining seats, and seven were left vacant as the candidates failed the English proficiency test. Of the estimated 3,000,000 registered voters, around 371,000 cast votes.

Results

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100125183929/http://www.eisa.org.za/WEP/malonepartyrule.htm Malawi: Era of One Party Rule (1964-1992)], [[Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa. EISA]]
(1971). "Malawi Handbook". [[Central Intelligence Agency]].
[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/MALAWI_1978_E.PDF Malawi] Inter-Parliamentary Union

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