1976 Cypriot legislative election

Parliamentary election in Cyprus Parliamentary elections were held in Cyprus on 5 September 1976.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p438 978-3-8329-5609-7 The elections were contested by two alliances; one consisting of the Democratic Front (DIKO), the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) and the Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK) and one consisting of the Democratic National Party (DEK) and Democratic Rally (DISY). The DIKO–AKEL–EDEK alliance received just over 70% of the vote and won 34 of the 35 seats, with the remaining seat going to an independent (Tassos Papadopoulos). Within the alliance, DIKO took 21 seats, AKEL nine and EDEK four. Voter turnout was 85.3%.Nohlen & Stöver, p442 Results File:Cyprus 1976.png DIKO–AKEL–EDEK 5 DIKO 756251 21 new AKEL 264005 9 0 EDEK 172485 4 +2 Other 49735 0 y 1242476 34 new DEK–DISY 485332 0 0 Independents 583 1 –1 0 229223 3541 272898 Parliament References Category:1976 in Cyprus Cyprus Category:Legislative elections in Cyprus Category:September 1976 in Europe