1972 Swazi general election

none Swaziland 1967 1978 16–17 May 1972 All 24 seats in the House of Assembly 13 INM Makhosini Dlamini 24 78.03 21 NNLC Ambrose Phesheya Zwane 0 18.29 3 Prime Minister Makhosini Dlamini INM Makhosini Dlamini INM General elections were held in Swaziland between 16 and 17 May 1972 to elect members of the House of Assembly. The result was a third successive victory for the royalist Imbokodvo National Movement, which won 78% of the vote and 21 of the 24 seats,Swaziland: 1967 Pre-independence General Election EISA based on a voter turnout of 74.0%.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p868 0-19-829645-2 The Ngwane National Liberatory Congress won three seats, but five days after the election one of its successful candidates was served with a deportation order as an "undesirable alien". Although he subsequently won a High Court ruling against the order, in November the parliament created a tribunal through which his citizenship was revoked. The Appeal Court declared the act unconstitutional, and on 12 April 1973 the parliament passed a motion that "called on the king to devise ways and means of dealing with the crisis". The result was that King Sobhuza II suspended the constitution, dismissed Parliament, banned all political parties and became an absolute monarch.Swaziland: Demise of democracy and the consolidation of autocracy (1968–1986) EISA Results Imbokodvo National Movement 164493 21 −3 Ngwane National Liberatory Congress (Zwane) 38554 3 +3 Ngwane National Liberatory Congress (Samketti) 6393 0 0 Swaziland United Front 797 0 0 Swaziland Progressive Party 582 0 0 70273 1034 0 74.0 Nohlen et al. References Category:Elections in Eswatini Election Swaziland Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:May 1972 in Africa