1978 Senegalese general election

1978 Senegalese general election
26 February 1978
Presidential election
Turnout63.12%
 
Candidate Léopold Sédar Senghor Abdoulaye Wade
Party PS PDS
Popular vote 807,515 174,817
Percentage 82.20% 17.80%
Results by region
President before election

Léopold Sédar Senghor
PS

 Elected President

Léopold Sédar Senghor
PS

Parliamentary election
Turnout62.64%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
PS Léopold Sédar Senghor 81.74 82 −18
PDS Abdoulaye Wade 17.88 18 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

General elections were held in Senegal on 26 February 1978 to elect a president and National Assembly. Following a constitutional amendment in 1976,[1] the elections were open to more than one party for the first time since 1963.[2] President Léopold Sédar Senghor of the Socialist Party (formerly the Senegalese Progressive Union) was challenged by Abdoulaye Wade of the Senegalese Democratic Party, but won with 82% of the vote.[3] Members of the National Assembly were elected by closed-list proportional representation. In the National Assembly election, the Socialist Party won 82 of the 100 seats.[1] Voter turnout was 63%.[4]

Results

President

CandidatePartyVotes%
Léopold Sédar SenghorSocialist Party807,51582.20
Abdoulaye WadeSenegalese Democratic Party174,81717.80
Total982,332100.00
Valid votes982,33299.37
Invalid/blank votes6,2340.63
Total votes988,566100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,566,25063.12
Source: Nohlen et al.

National Assembly

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Socialist Party790,79981.7482–18
Senegalese Democratic Party172,94817.8818New
African Independence Party3,7340.390New
Total967,481100.001000
Valid votes967,48199.25
Invalid/blank votes7,3440.75
Total votes974,825100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,556,25062.64
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

  1. 1 2 Senegal Inter-Parliamentary Union
  2. ↑ Cox, Pamela; Kessler, Richard (1980). "'Après Senghor'--A Socialist Senegal?". African Affairs. 79 (316): 327–342. ISSN 0001-9909.
  3. ↑ Elections in Senegal Archived 2018-08-31 at the Wayback Machine African Elections Database
  4. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p765–770 ISBN 0-19-829645-2

Further reading

  • Fatton, Robert (1987). The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975–1985. Boulder: L. Rienner. ISBN 1-55587-010-4.
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