1969 Somali parliamentary election

none Parliamentary elections were held in Somalia on 26 March 1969. A total of 64 parties ran in the election, many of which had been formed shortly beforehand.Somalia Inter-Parliamentary Union The result was a victory for the Somali Youth League (SYL), which won 73 of the 123 seats. In total, 27 parties won seats, but immediately after the elections, most of the MPs for the smaller parties joined the Somali Youth League. The SYL held 109 seats by the end of May, in addition to being in a coalition with the Somali National Congress. This gave the SYL control of 120 of the 123 seats.Elections in Somalia https://web.archive.org/web/20250211174838/https://africanelections.tripod.com/so.html 2025-02-11 African Elections Database This was to be the last election in Somalia prior to a coup d'état on 21 October, when officers of the far-left Supreme Revolutionary Council led by Siad Barre transformed Somalia into a single-party Marxist-Leninist state that would last until the fall of the regime in 1991.https://books.google.com/books?id=4VByAAAAMAAJ Somalia: A Country Study Library of Congress. Federal Research Division 1993 U.S. Government Publishing Office 9780844407753 Metz Helen Chapin Helen Chapin Metz en Siad Barre and Scientific Socialism http://countrystudies.us/somalia/24.htmhttps://books.google.com/books?id=4VByAAAAMAAJ Somalia: A Country Study Library of Congress. Federal Research Division 1993 U.S. Government Publishing Office 9780844407753 Metz Helen Chapin en Siad Barre's Repressive Measures http://countrystudies.us/somalia/28.htmhttps://books.google.com/books?id=4VByAAAAMAAJ Somalia: A Country Study Library of Congress. Federal Research Division 1993 U.S. Government Publishing Office 9780844407753 Metz Helen Chapin en The Social Order http://countrystudies.us/somalia/37.htm Electoral system The electoral system used was a mixture of single-member plurality and party-list proportional representation. There were 48 electoral districts. In ten of them, only one member was elected, and thus the single-member plurality system was used. In the remaining districts, seats were distributed using party-list proportional representation and the Hare quota. The average number of members elected in a multi-member district was approximately three.Somalia Inter-Parliamentary Union Results Somali Youth League 260046 73 +4 Somali National Congress 77339 11 –11 Somali Democratic Union 46064 2 –13 Popular Movement for Democratic Action 42629 2 New Somali African National Union 42006 6 +1 Somali Socialist Party 31058 2 New Somali Independent Constitutional Party 27681 8 –1 Liberal Party of Young Somalis 25639 3 +2 Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party 16742 1 New United Somali Party 13942 0 –1 Ururka Dadka Dalka 13543 1 New Somali National Solidarity Party 12269 1 New Somali People's Movement Party 8531 2 New Somali United Party 7923 1 New Muslim Democratic Party 6655 1 New Somali Republican party 6240 0 –1 Ubah Party 5912 1 New Somali National League 5404 1 0 All Somali Association 5395 1 New Somali Danwadag Union Party 5389 1 New Somali Labour Party 5122 1 New Progressive Socialist Union 4426 1 New Organisation of Somali Unity 4353 1 New Somali National Movement 4290 0 –1 Worker's and People's Democratic Party 3524 1 New Somali African Democratic Party 3471 1 New Somali National Union Manifesto 2908 1 New Somali Amalgamation Party 2870 1 New Justice and Freedom Party 2305 1 New Somali Democratic Party 2293 1 New 34 other parties 86265 0 – 97320 0 Inter-Parliamentary Union References Parliamentary Somalia Category:Parliamentary elections in Somalia Somalia Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results