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1986 Czechoslovak parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	Czechoslovakia
flag_year	1986
type	legislative
previous_election	1981 Czechoslovak parliamentary election
previous_year	1981
election_date	23–24 May 1986
next_election	1990 Czechoslovak parliamentary election
next_year	1990
seats_for_election	All 200 seats in the House of the People
All 150 seats in the House of Nations
turnout	99.40%
image1	Gustáv Husák - oříznuto.JPG
leader1	Gustáv Husák
party1	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
alliance1	National Front
seats_after1	241
seat_change1	1
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Lubomír Štrougal
before_party	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
after_election	Lubomír Štrougal
after_party	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

All 150 seats in the House of Nations

Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 23 and 24 May 1986. The National Front put forward a single list of candidates for both the House of the People (the lower house) and the House of Nations (the upper house) and one NF candidate ran in each single member constituency. With a total of 350 seats in the two Houses, 242 were assigned to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 18 to the Czechoslovak People's Party, 18 to the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, four to the Party of Slovak Revival, four to the Freedom Party and 64 to independents. Voter turnout was reported to be 99.39%.

Like the other elections of the Communist era, the result was a foregone conclusion. People were afraid not to vote, and when they did so, those who entered a voting booth to modify their ballot paper could expect to be persecuted by the state.

Results

House of the People

House of Nations

1989–1990 co-options

Following the Velvet Revolution of November 1989 that overthrew the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, the Federal Assembly passed a new law empowering itself to fill vacant seats through co-option. This was used to elect members of newly formed democratic parties and organizations in place of resigning hardline Communists and other supporters of the old regime, ahead of the free elections scheduled for June 1990. The process took place in three waves, on 28 December 1989, 30 January 1990 and then 27 February 1990. The process mirrored the removal of reform Communists from the Assembly in favor of hardline ones in 1969 after the crushing of the Prague Spring. Its main architect Zdeněk Jičínský, a former dissident and Prague Spring figure who had himself been a victim of such co-optation, likely intended it as retribution.{{cite web |last=Hvížďala |first=Karel |date= 19 December 2007 |title= POLITIKA: Česko a volby prezidentů

References

[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/CZECHOSLOVAKIA_1986_E.PDF Czechoslovakia] Inter-Parliamentary Union
[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p465 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p457
"Federální shromáždění ČSSR/ČSFR - Sněmovna lidu (24. 5. 1986 — 9. 6. 1990 )".
"Federální shromáždění ČSSR/ČSFR - Sněmovna národů (24. 5. 1986 — 9. 6. 1990 )".

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