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1978 Upper Voltan parliamentary election

Field	Value
country	Upper Volta
previous_election	[1970](1970-upper-voltan-parliamentary-election)
next_election	[1992](1992-burkinabe-parliamentary-election)
election_date	30 April 1978
seats_for_election	All 57 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	29
turnout	38.32% ( 9.97pp)
party1	African Democratic Rally (Burkina Faso)
leader1	Joseph Conombo
last_election1	37
percentage1	42.54
seats1	28
party2	National Union for the Defence of Democracy
leader2	Hermann Yaméogo
last_election2	New
percentage2	22.87
seats2	13
party3	UPV
leader3	Joseph Ki-Zerbo
last_election3	New
percentage3	15.82
seats3	9
party4	African Regroupment Party (Upper Volta)
leader4	Djibo Bakary
last_election4	12
percentage4	9.56
seats4	6
party5	UNI
color5	#800080
leader5	Moussa Kargougou
last_election5	New
percentage5	7.42
seats5	1
map	[[File:1978 Upper Volta parliamentary election - Results by constituency.svg	300px]]
map_caption	Results by constituency
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Sangoulé Lamizana
before_party	Independent
after_election	Joseph Conombo
after_party	UDV-RDA

Parliamentary elections were held in Upper Volta on 30 April 1978. They followed a constitutional referendum the previous year, which came about as a result of the 1974 military coup. A total of 367 candidates contested the elections.

The result was a victory for the Voltaic Democratic Union–African Democratic Rally, which won 28 of the 57 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was just 38.3%.

The new constitution also limited the number of political parties to three, meaning that only the three largest parties in the Assembly were allowed to continue existing, resulting in the African Regroupment Party, the country's oldest party, virtually disappearing.

Results

References

[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/UPPER_VOLTA_1978_E.pdf Upper Volta] Inter-Parliamentary Union
[http://africanelections.tripod.com/bf.html Elections in Burkina Faso] African Elections Database
[[Dieter Nohlen]], Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p134 {{ISBN. 0-19-829645-2

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