1997 Laotian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Laos on 21 December 1997.[1] A total of 159 candidates contested the 99 seats, all but four of which were Lao People's Revolutionary Party members. The LPRP emerged victorious, winning 98 seats.[2] Voter turnout was reported to be 99.4%.[1]
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Results
| Alliance | Party | Votes | % | Candidates | Elected | +/– |
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| Lao Front for National Construction | Lao People's Revolutionary Party | 100 | 155 | 98 | +13 | |
| Independents | 4 | 1 | +1 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | – | – | – | – | ||
| Total | 2,284,632 | 100 | 159 | 99 | +14 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,299,128 | 99.36 | – | – | – | |
| Source: Nohlen et al. | ||||||
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gollark: This furniture budget thing probably doesn't add up to a significant amount of the total spend, so it's a bad comparison.
gollark: Apparently American healthcare spending is something like 17% of GDP for some insane reason. So it would be a big fraction of the government budget, if they ran it as efficiently as it currently operated.
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References
- Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p135 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
- Laos: Elections held in 1997 Inter-Parliamentary Union
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