1977 Moroccan general election

none Morocco 1970 1984 3 June 1977 All 264 seats in the House of Representatives 133 82.36% ( 2.98pp) Istiqlal Party M'hamed Boucetta 21.62 51 8 Socialist Union of Popular Forces Abderrahim Bouabid 14.64 15 New Popular Movement (Morocco) Abdelkrim al-Khatib 12.40 44 60 Party of Progress and Socialism Ali Yata 2.31 1 new Constitutional and Democratic Popular Movement fr Mouvement populaire démocratique et constitutionnel MPDC Abdelkrim al-Khatib 2.03 3 new Action Party (Morocco) Abdellah Senhaji 1.80 2 new Moroccan Workers' Union Mahjoub Ben Seddik fr 0.52 7 new Independents – 44.68 141 159 Prime Minister Ahmed Osman RNI Ahmed Osman RNI General elections were held in Morocco on 3 June 1977. Elections had previously been held in 1970, but Parliament had been dissolved in March 1972 and a new constitution approved in a referendum in the same month. Fresh elections were scheduled for May, but were later indefinitely postponed. Unlike the previous Parliament, in which only 90 of the 240 members had been directly elected, the new Parliament had 176 directly elected members, 48 elected by colleges of local councillors, and 40 from professional colleges (15 from the Chambers of Agriculture, 10 from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 7 from the Chamber of Handicrafts and 8 by representatives of employees' organizations).Morocco Inter-Parliamentary Union A total of 1,022 candidates contested the election; 456 were independents, with the remainder belonging to seven different parties. Ultimately independents won the majority of seats, with a total of 141. Voter turnout was 82%. Results Direct election Indirect election File:Morocco House of Representatives 1977.svg Istiqlal Party 1090960 46 5 51 Socialist Union of Popular Forces 738541 15 0 15 Popular Movement 625786 29 15 44 Party of Progress and Socialism 116470 1 0 1 Constitutional and Democratic Popular Movement fr Mouvement populaire démocratique et constitutionnel 102358 2 1 3 Action Party 90840 2 0 2 Moroccan Workers' Union 26111 0 7 7 Independents 2254297 81 60 141 324068 6519301 IPU References Morocco General Category:Elections in Morocco Morocco Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results