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1981 Czechoslovak parliamentary election

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1981 Czechoslovak parliamentary election

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All 200 seats to the House of the People
All 150 seats to the House of Nations
Turnout99.5%
  Majority party
 
Leader Gustáv Husák
Party KSČ
Alliance National Front
Seats after 240
Seat change Increase 3

Prime Minister before election

Lubomír Štrougal
KSČ

Elected Prime Minister

Lubomír Štrougal
KSČ

Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 5 and 6 June 1981.[1] The National Front put forward a single list of candidates for both the House of the People (the lower house) and the House of Nations (the upper house) and one NF candidate ran in each single member constituency.[2] With a total of 350 seats in the two Houses, 240 were assigned to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 18 to the Czechoslovak People's Party, 18 to the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, four to the Party of Slovak Revival, four to the Freedom Party and 66 to independents.[1] Voter turnout was reported to be 99.51%.[1]

Like the other elections of the Communist era, the result was a foregone conclusion. People were afraid not to vote, and when they did so, those who entered a voting booth to modify their ballot paper could expect to be persecuted by the state.[3]

Results

House of the People

Party Votes % Seats
National Front 10,725,609 99.96 200
Against 4,596 0.04
Invalid/blank votes 6,107
Total 10,736,312 100 200
Registered voters/turnout 10,789,574 99.5
Source: IPU, CZSO

House of Nations

Party Votes % Seats
National Front 10,725,895 99.96 150
Against 4,308 0.04
Invalid/blank votes 6,109
Total 10,736,312 100 150
Registered voters/turnout 10,789,574 99.5
Source: IPU, CZSO

References

  1. ^ a b c Czechoslovakia Inter-Parliamentary Union
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p465 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p457