1986 Czechoslovak parliamentary election

none Czechoslovakia 1986 legislative 1981 Czechoslovak parliamentary election 1981 23–24 May 1986 1990 Czechoslovak parliamentary election 1990 All 200 seats in the House of the PeopleAll 150 seats in the House of Nations 99.40% Gustáv Husák - oříznuto.JPG Gustáv Husák Communist Party of Czechoslovakia National Front 241 1 Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Lubomír Štrougal Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 23 and 24 May 1986.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) and one NF candidate ran in 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, 242 were assigned to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 18 to the Czechoslovak People's Party, 18 to the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, four to the Party of Slovak Revival, four to the Freedom Party and 64 to independents. Voter turnout was reported to be 99.39%. Like the other elections of the Communist era, the result 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 1986.svg National Front 6 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 10871881 99.4 6 138 Czechoslovak People's Party 11 Czechoslovak Socialist Party 11 Party of Slovak Revival 2 Freedom Party 2 Independents 36 Against 0.6 10884947 10950675 ,Federální shromáždění ČSSR/ČSFR - Sněmovna lidu (24. 5. 1986 — 9. 6. 1990 ) https://databazeposlancu.cz/snemovni-obdobi/80/ databazeposlancu.cz 14 November 2024 IPU, CZSO House of Nations File:Czechoslovakia House of Nations 1986.svg National Front 6 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 103 Czechoslovak People's Party 7 Czechoslovak Socialist Party 7 Party of Slovak Revival 2 Freedom Party 2 Independents 29 10884947 10950675 ,Federální shromáždění ČSSR/ČSFR - Sněmovna národů (24. 5. 1986 — 9. 6. 1990 ) https://databazeposlancu.cz/snemovni-obdobi/81/ databazeposlancu.cz 14 November 2024 IPU, CZSO 1989–1990 co-options Following the Velvet Revolution of November 1989 that overthrew the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, the Federal Assembly passed a new law empowering itself to fill vacant seats through co-option. This was used to elect members of newly formed democratic parties and organizations in place of resigning hardline Communists and other supporters of the old regime, ahead of the free elections scheduled for June 1990. The process took place in three waves, on 28 December 1989, 30 January 1990 and then 27 February 1990. The process mirrored the removal of reform Communists from the Assembly in favor of hardline ones in 1969 after the crushing of the Prague Spring. Its main architect Zdeněk Jičínský, a former dissident and Prague Spring figure whom had himself been a victim of such co-option, likely intended it as retribution.Hvížďala Karel 19 December 2007 POLITIKA: Česko a volby prezidentů https://neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz/politika/politika-cesko-a-volby-prezidentu.A071217_220040_p_politika_wag 2 December 2025 House of the People House of Nations Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 77 64 Civic Forum 40 22 Public Against Violence 20 16 Czechoslovak People's Party 11 7 Czechoslovak Socialist Party 11 7 Christian Democratic Movement 2 1 Christian Democratic Party 2 0 #00008B Czech Social Democratic Party 2 1 Green Party 2 1 Democratic Party 2 2 Czechoslovak Democratic Initiative 2 0 #ffc528 Freedom Party 2 3 Coexistence 0 1 Independents 27 26 References Czechoslovakia Parliamentary Category:Elections in Communist Czechoslovakia Category:One-party elections Category:Single-candidate elections Czechoslovakia