1987 Malawian general election

none Malawi parliamentary 27–28 May 1987 1983 Malawian general election 1983 1992 Malawian general election 1992 All 123 seats in the National Assembly 62 Dr HK Banda, first president of Malawi.jpg Hastings Banda Malawi Congress Party 101 112 11 General elections were held in Malawi on 27 and 28 May 1987.Elections in Malawi https://web.archive.org/web/20141007065747/http://africanelections.tripod.com/mw.html 2014-10-07 African Elections Database As the country had become a one-party state in 1966, the Malawi Congress Party was the sole legal party at the time. The number of seats in the National Assembly was increased to 112, whilst president for life Hastings Banda was able to appoint as many additional members as he saw fit to "enhance the representative character of the Assembly, or to represent particular minority or other special interests in the Republic."Malawi Inter-Parliamentary Union In total over 200 candidates contested the seats, although in 38 there was only a single MCP candidate, who was elected unopposed. In the remaining 80 seats there were between two and five candidates, all of which were from the MCP. Banda appointed a further 11 members. All prospective candidates were vetted by Banda after being nominated by MCP committees,Malawi: Era of One Party Rule (1964-1992) https://web.archive.org/web/20100125183929/http://www.eisa.org.za/WEP/malonepartyrule.htm 2010-01-25 EISA and had to declare their allegiance to Banda in order to be allowed to stand.https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79-00891A001000040001-8.pdf Malawi Handbook Central Intelligence Agency 1971 Results Malawi Congress Party 112 +11 Appointed members 11 0 +11 3278907 African Elections Database, IPU References General Category:Parliamentary elections in Malawi Category:One-party elections Malawi Malawi Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results