1976 Czechoslovak parliamentary election

none Czechoslovakia 1976 legislative 1971 Czechoslovak parliamentary election 1971 22–23 October 1976 1981 Czechoslovak parliamentary election 1981 All 200 seats in the House of the PeopleAll 150 seats in the House of Nations 99.70% Gustav Husák in 1972 portrait.jpg Gustáv Husák Communist Party of Czechoslovakia National Front 237 8 Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Lubomír Štrougal Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 22 and 23 October 1976.Czechoslovakia Inter-Parliamentary Union 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), with one NF candidate contesting each single member constituency.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p465 978-3-8329-5609-7 With a total of 350 seats in the two Houses, 237 were assigned to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 18 to the Czechoslovak People's Party, 17 to the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, 4 to the Party of Slovak Revival and 74 to other parties. The reported voter turnout was 99.7%. As with previous elections during the Communist era, the outcome 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.Nohlen & Stöver, p457 Results House of the People File:Czechoslovakia House of the People 1976.svg National Front 6 Communist Party of Czechoslovakianote One member of the Communist parliamentary group is also in the unaffiliated group.Federální shromáždění ČSSR/ČSFR - Sněmovna lidu (23. 10. 1976 — 17. 6. 1981 ) https://databazeposlancu.cz/snemovni-obdobi/74/ databazeposlancu.cz 14 November 2024 This member has been placed in the Communist results in this table. 10605672 6 137 Czechoslovak People's Party 11 Czechoslovak Socialist Party 10 Party of Slovak Revival 2 Freedom Party 2 Independents 38 Against 3583 7897 10649261 , IPU, CZSO House of Nations File:Czechoslovakia House of Nations 1976.svg National Front 6 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 10605672 6 102 Czechoslovak People's Party 7 Czechoslovak Socialist Party 7 Party of Slovak Revival 2 Freedom Party 2 Independents 30 Against 3372 8108 10649261 ,Federální shromáždění ČSSR/ČSFR - Sněmovna národů (23. 10. 1976 — 17. 6. 1981 ) https://databazeposlancu.cz/snemovni-obdobi/75/ databazeposlancu.cz 14 November 2024 IPU, CZSO Notes note References Czechoslovakia Parliamentary Category:Elections in Communist Czechoslovakia Category:Single-candidate elections Czechoslovakia