1980 Cape Verdean parliamentary election

Last updated
1980 Cape Verdean parliamentary election
Flag of Cape Verde (1975-1992).svg
  1975 7 December 1980 1985  
Registered126,028
Turnout75.77%
 First party
  Aristide Pereira detail DF-SC-84-10021.jpg
Leader Aristides Pereira
Party PAIGC
Seats won63
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 7
Popular vote88,309
Percentage92.6%

Prime Minister before election

Aristides Pereira
PAIGC

Elected Prime Minister

Aristides Pereira
PAICV

Parliamentary elections were held in Cape Verde on 7 December 1980. [1] The country was a one-party state at the time, with the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) as the sole legal party. [2] Its leader was Aristides Pereira. The PAIGC presented a list of 63 candidates and three substitutes to voters to approve.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde 88,30992.6063+8
Against7,0527.40
Total95,361100.0063+8
Valid votes95,36199.87
Invalid/blank votes1250.13
Total votes95,486100.00
Registered voters/turnout126,02875.77
Source: African Elections Database

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aristides Pereira</span>

Aristides Maria Pereira was a Cape Verdean politician. He was the first President of Cape Verde, serving from 1975 to 1991.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pedro Pires</span> Cape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde

Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as President from 2001 to 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luís Cabral</span> President of Guinea-Bissau from 1974 to 1980

Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was the first President of Guinea-Bissau. He served from 1974 to 1980, when a military coup d'état led by João Bernardo Vieira deposed him. Luís Cabral was a half-brother of Amílcar Cabral, with whom he co-founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in 1956.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amílcar Cabral</span> Guinea-Bissauan politician (1924–1973)

Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, pan-Africanist, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde</span> Political party in Guinea-Bissau

The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. Originally formed to peacefully campaign for independence from Portugal, the party turned to armed conflict in the 1960s and was one of the belligerents in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence. Towards the end of the war, the party established a socialist one-party state, which remained intact until multi-party democracy was introduced in the early 1990s. Although the party won the first multi-party elections in 1994, it was removed from power in the 1999–2000 elections. However, it returned to office after winning parliamentary elections in 2004 and presidential elections in 2005, since which it has remained the largest party in the National People's Assembly.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde</span> Political party in Cape Verde

The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde is a democratic socialist political party in Cape Verde. It was formerly a Marxist–Leninist communist party and the sole legal party in the country from 1981 to 1990. Its members are nicknamed "os tambarinas" in Portuguese, and they identify themselves with the color yellow.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elections in Guinea-Bissau</span> Political elections for public offices in Guinea-Bissau

Elections in Guinea-Bissau take place within the framework of a multi-party democracy and a semi-presidential system. Both the President and the National People's Assembly are directly elected by voters.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Struggle Front for the National Independence of Guinea</span>

The Struggle Front for the National Independence of Guinea was a political movement in Guinea-Bissau. Founded by groups opposed to the Marxist doctrine of Amílcar Cabral and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), FLING played a minor role in the national liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carlos Veiga</span>

Carlos Alberto Wahnon de Carvalho Veiga is a Cape Verdean politician. He was Prime Minister of Cape Verde from April 4, 1991 to July 29, 2000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Assembly (Cape Verde)</span> Unicameral legislature of Cape Verde

The unicameral National Assembly is the legislative body of the Republic of Cabo Verde.

Onésimo Silveira was a Cape Verdean politician and writer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1994 Guinea-Bissau general election</span>

General elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 3 July 1994, with a second round for the presidential election on 7 August. They were the first multi-party elections since independence, and also the first time the president had been directly elected, as previously the post had been elected by the National People's Assembly. In the presidential election, the result was a victory for incumbent João Bernardo Vieira of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), who defeated Kumba Ialá of Social Renewal Party in the second round. In the Assembly election, 1,136 candidates ran for the 100 seats, of which the PAIGC won 62.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1972 Portuguese Guinea National Assembly election</span>

Indirect elections to a National Assembly were held in the parts of Portuguese Guinea held by the rebel African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) between August and October 1972, but not in the Portuguese-controlled areas of Bissau, Bolama, the Bissagos Islands and Bafatá.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1975 Cape Verdean parliamentary election</span>

Parliamentary elections were held in Cape Verde in June 1975 in preparation for independence from Portugal on 5 July. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde was the sole legal party at the time, with voters being asked to approve or reject a PAIGC list of 56 members for the National People's Assembly. Its party leader was Aristides Pereira. The list was approved by 95.6% of voters, with a turnout of 86.7%.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cape Verde–Guinea-Bissau relations</span> Bilateral relations

Cape Verde–Guinea Bissau relations refers to the bilateral relationship between the Republic of Cape Verde and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Cape Verde is an island country about 900 km north-west of Guinea-Bissau, a coastal West African country. Both were colonies of the Portuguese Empire and they campaigned together for independence with a plan for unification, but the countries separated after 1980.

The following lists events that happened during 1981 in Cape Verde.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 Guinea-Bissau legislative election</span>

Legislative elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 10 March 2019. They were originally scheduled for 18 November 2018 following an ECOWAS brokered agreement between President José Mário Vaz and the opposition in April 2018, but the electoral census was not completed until 20 November, and Prime Minister Aristides Gomes subsequently proposed 16 December, 30 December, or 27 January 2019 as possible alternative dates. The election date was settled following a presidential decree issued in December 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état</span> Coup that brought João Bernardo Vieira to power

The 1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état was the bloodless military coup that took place in Guinea-Bissau on 14 November 1980, led by Prime Minister General João Bernardo Vieira. It led to the deposition of President Luís Cabral, who held the office since 1973, while the country's War of Independence was still ongoing.

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut, (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p193 ISBN   0-19-829645-2
  2. Elections in Cape Verde African Elections Database