1978 Syrian presidential election

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1978 Syrian presidential election
Flag of Syria (1972-1980).svg
  1971 8 February 1978 (1978-02-08) 1985  
  Hafez Al-Assad 1977.jpg
Nominee Hafez al-Assad
Party Ba'ath Party
Alliance NPF
Popular vote3,975,729
Percentage99.9%

1971, 1978, 1985, 1991, 1999, 2000, and 2007 Syrian presidential election results by Governorate.svg
Results by governorate
Assad:      90–100%
      Election not held

1978 Presidential election in Syria.jpg
Another variant of the presidential election 1971 results, which includes "against" and "invalid votes".

President before election

Hafez al-Assad
Ba'ath Party

Elected President

Hafez al-Assad
Ba'ath Party

Presidential elections were held in Syria on 8 February 1978. [1] There was only one candidate, Hafez al-Assad, with voters asked to approve or reject his candidacy. A reported 99.9% of voters voted in favour, with a turnout of 97,0%. [2]

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Hafez al-Assad Ba'ath Party 3,975,72999.88
Against4,7980.12
Total3,980,527100.00
Valid votes3,980,52799.72
Invalid/blank votes11,1680.28
Total votes3,991,695100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,115,14997.00
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p221 ISBN   0-19-924958-X
  2. Nohlen et al., p227