1978 Upper Voltan parliamentary election

none Upper Volta 1970 1992 30 April 1978 All 57 seats in the National Assembly 29 38.32% ( 9.97pp) African Democratic Rally (Burkina Faso) Joseph Conombo 37 42.54 28 National Union for the Defence of Democracy Hermann Yaméogo New 22.87 13 UPV Joseph Ki-Zerbo New 15.82 9 African Regroupment Party (Upper Volta) Djibo Bakary 12 9.56 6 UNI #800080 Moussa Kargougou New 7.42 1 300px Results by constituency Prime Minister Sangoulé Lamizana Independent Joseph Conombo UDV-RDA Parliamentary elections were held in Upper Volta on 30 April 1978. They followed a constitutional referendum the previous year, which came about as a result of the 1974 military coup. A total of 367 candidates contested the elections.Upper Volta Inter-Parliamentary Union The result was a victory for the Voltaic Democratic Union–African Democratic Rally, which won 28 of the 57 seats in the National Assembly.Elections in Burkina Faso https://web.archive.org/web/20111011151029/http://africanelections.tripod.com/bf.html 2011-10-11 African Elections Database Voter turnout was just 38.3%.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p134 0-19-829645-2 The new constitution also limited the number of political parties to three, meaning that only the three largest parties in the Assembly were allowed to continue existing, resulting in the African Regroupment Party, the country's oldest party, virtually disappearing. Results File:Haute-Volta Assemblee 1978.svg Voltaic Democratic Union–African Democratic Rally 455329 28 –9 National Union for the Defence of Democracy 244754 13 New Voltaic Progressive Union 169331 9 New African Regroupment Party 102335 6 –6 National Union of Independents 79367 1 New #800080 Movement of PRA Independents 18361 0 New Popular Action Grouping 827 0 New 51495 0 2927416 Nohlen et al. References Category:Parliamentary elections in Burkina Faso Upper Volta Parliamentary