1978 Senegalese general election

none Senegal 26 February 1978 1973 Senegalese general election 1973 1983 Senegalese general election 1983 yes Presidential election 63.12% UNESCO_History,_Visite_de_S._Exc._M._Léopold_Sedar_Senghor,_Président_de_la_République_du_Sénégal_-_UNESCO_-_PHOTO0000002688_0001_(cropped).tiff Léopold Sédar Senghor Socialist Party of Senegal 807,515 82.20% Abdoulaye Wade 2011.jpg Abdoulaye Wade Senegalese Democratic Party 174,817 17.80% 1978 Senegalese presidential election - Results by region.svg Results by region President Léopold Sédar Senghor Socialist Party of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor Socialist Party of Senegal yes Parliamentary election 62.64% Socialist Party of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor 81.74 82 100 Senegalese Democratic Party Abdoulaye Wade 17.88 18 New General elections were held in Senegal on 26 February 1978 to elect a president and National Assembly. Following a constitutional amendment in 1976,Senegal Inter-Parliamentary Union the elections were open to more than one party for the first time since 1963.Cox Pamela Kessler Richard 1980 'Après Senghor'--A Socialist Senegal? https://www.jstor.org/stable/722043 African Affairs 79 316 327–342 0001-9909 President Léopold Sédar Senghor of the Socialist Party (formerly the Senegalese Progressive Union) was challenged by Abdoulaye Wade of the Senegalese Democratic Party, but won with 82% of the vote.Elections in Senegal https://web.archive.org/web/20180831074737/http://africanelections.tripod.com/sn.html 2018-08-31 African Elections Database Members of the National Assembly were elected by closed-list proportional representation. In the National Assembly election, the Socialist Party won 82 of the 100 seats. Voter turnout was 63%.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p765–770 0-19-829645-2 Results President Léopold Sédar Senghor Socialist Party 807515 Abdoulaye Wade Senegalese Democratic Party 174817 6234 1566250 Nohlen et al. National Assembly File:Senegal Assemblee 1978.svg Socialist Party 790799 82 –18 Senegalese Democratic Party 172948 18 New African Independence Party 3734 0 New 7344 0 1556250 Nohlen et al. References Further reading Fatton Robert The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975–1985 Boulder L. Rienner 1987 1-55587-010-4 Senegal Category:Parliamentary elections in Senegal General Category:Presidential elections in Senegal Senegal