1977 Moroccan general election

1977 Moroccan general election

3 June 1977

264 seats in the House of Representatives 133 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Istiqlal Allal al-Fassi 21.62 51 +43 MP Abdelkrim al-Khatib 14.64 15 −45 CDPM 12.40 44 New USFP 2.31 1 New Action Party Abdellah Senhaji 2.03 3 New PPS Ali Yata 1.80 2 New UMT 0.52 7 New Independent 44.9 141 −18 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Ahmed Osman RNI Ahmed Osman RNI

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.

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).

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%.

Results

Party		Direct election			Indirect election			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Istiqlal Party	1,090,960	21.62	46			5	51
	Popular Movement	738,541	14.64	15			0	15
	Constitutional and Democratic Popular Movement	625,786	12.40	29			15	44
	Socialist Union of Popular Forces	116,470	2.31	1			0	1
	Action Party	102,358	2.03	2			1	3
	Party of Progress and Socialism	90,840	1.80	2			0	2
	Moroccan Workers' Union	26,116	0.52	0			7	7
	Independents	2,254,297	44.68	81			60	141
Total		5,045,368	100.00	176			88	264
Valid votes		5,045,368	93.96
Invalid/blank votes		324,063	6.04
Total votes		5,369,431	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		6,519,301	82.36
Source: Sternberger et al.