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Turnout | 88.78% | |||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary elections were held in South Yemen between 28 and 30 October 1986, having originally been scheduled for 1983, but later postponed. A total of 181 candidates contested the 111 seats of the Supreme People's Council. [1] Although the country was a one-party state at the time, with the Yemeni Socialist Party as the sole legal party, independents were also able to run as candidates.
The result was a victory for the Socialist Party, which won 71 seats. Voter turnout was reported to be 88.78%.
The 111 Members of Parliament were elected by plurality in eighty constituencies, with voters having the same number of votes as the number of seats available in their constituency. [2]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Yemeni Socialist Party | 71 | –40 | |||
Independents | 40 | New | |||
Total | 111 | 0 | |||
Total votes | 725,568 | – | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 817,253 | 88.78 | |||
Source: IPU |
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