1977 Moroccan general election

Parliamentary 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.

1977 Moroccan general election
3 June 1977
264 seats in the House of Representatives
133 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats ±
Istiqlal Allal al-Fassi 21.7 51 +43
CDPM 12.4 44 New
Popular Movement Abdelkrim al-Khatib 14.7 15 -45
UMT 0.1 7 New
Action Party Abdellah Senhaji 2.0 3 New
PPS Ali Yata 1.8 2 New
USFP 2.3 1 New
Independent 44.9 141 -18
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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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 82.36%.[1]

Results
Party Direct election Indirect election Total seats
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Istiqlal Party1,090,96021.746551
Popular Movement738,54114.715015
Constitutional and Democratic Popular Movement625,78612.4291544
Socialist Union of Popular Forces116,4702.3101
Action Party102,3582.0213
Party of Progress and Socialism90,8401.8202
Moroccan Workers' Union26,1160.1077
Independents2,254,29744.98160141
Invalid/blank votes324,063−−−−−
Total5,369,43117688264
Registered voters/turnout6,519,30182.3−−−
Source: Sternberger et al.[2]
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References
  1. Morocco Inter-Parliamentary Union
  2. Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p1345
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