1977 Moroccan general election

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1977 Moroccan general election
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  1970 3 June 1977 1984  

All 264 seats in the House of Representatives
133 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
Istiqlal M'hamed Boucetta 21.6251+43
USFP Abderrahim Bouabid 14.6415New
MP Abdelkrim al-Khatib 12.4044−16
PPS Ali Yata 2.311New
MPDC  [ fr ] Abdelkrim al-Khatib 2.033New
Action Party Abdellah Senhaji 1.802New
UMT Mahjoub Ben Seddik  [ fr ]0.527New
Independents 44.68141−18
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister beforePrime Minister after
Ahmed Osman
RNI
Ahmed Osman
RNI

General elections were held in Morocco on 3 June 1977. Elections had previously been held in 1970, but Parliament had been dissolved in March 1972 and a new constitution approved in a referendum in the same month. Fresh elections were scheduled for May, but were later indefinitely postponed.

Unlike the previous Parliament, in which only 90 of the 240 members had been directly elected, the new Parliament had 176 directly elected members, 48 elected by colleges of local councillors, and 40 from professional colleges (15 from the Chambers of Agriculture, 10 from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 7 from the Chamber of Handicrafts and 8 by representatives of employees' organizations). [1]

A total of 1,022 candidates contested the election; 456 were independents, with the remainder belonging to seven different parties. Ultimately independents won the majority of seats, with a total of 141. Voter turnout was 82%. [1]

Results

Morocco House of Representatives 1977.svg
PartyDirect electionIndirect electionTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Istiqlal Party 1,090,96021.6246551
Socialist Union of Popular Forces 738,54114.6415015
Popular Movement 625,78612.40291544
Party of Progress and Socialism 116,4702.31101
Constitutional and Democratic Popular Movement  [ fr ]102,3582.03213
Action Party 90,8401.80202
Moroccan Workers' Union 26,1110.52077
Independents2,254,29744.688160141
Total5,045,363100.0017688264
Valid votes5,045,36393.96
Invalid/blank votes324,0686.04
Total votes5,369,431100.00
Registered voters/turnout6,519,30182.36
Source: IPU

References

  1. 1 2 Morocco Inter-Parliamentary Union