The following elections occurred in the year 1976.
Africa
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1976–1977 Guinea-Bissau legislative election
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1976 Malawian general election
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1976 Mauritanian presidential election
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1976 Tiris El Gharbiya parliamentary by-election (Mauritania)
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1976 Mauritian general election
General elections were held in Mauritius on 20 December 1976. They were the first general elections to be held since independence on 12 March 1968 and came nine years after the previous elections in 1967. Although elections had been scheduled for ...
Asia
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1976 Cambodian parliamentary election
General elections were held in Democratic Kampuchea on 20 March 1976, following the Khmer Rouge's victory over the Lon Nol government in April 1975. A total of 515 candidates for the 250 seats of Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly were pu ...
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1976 Japanese general election
General elections were held in Japan on 5 December 1976. Voter turnout was 73.45%. This election was noted for seeing 124 newcomers win seats for the very first time, along with the defeat of some legacy candidates, signalling a generational shif ...
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1976 Singaporean general election
General elections were held in Singapore on 23 December 1976. The result was a victory for the People's Action Party, which won all 69 seats, the third of four consecutive elections in which they repeated the feat. Voter turnout was 95.1%, out of ...
Australia
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1976 New South Wales state election
A general election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 1 May 1976. The result was a narrow win for the Labor Party under Neville Wran—the party's first in the state i ...
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1976 Tasmanian state election
Europe
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1976 Gibraltar general election
General elections were held in Gibraltar on 29 September 1976 . The result was a victory for the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights, which won eight of the 15 seats in the House of Assembly.Vincent E. McHale (1983) ''Political parti ...
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1976 Irish presidential election
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1976 Italian general election
The 1976 Italian general election was held in Italy on 20 June 1976.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1048 It was the first election after the voting age was lowered to 18.
The Christian Democracy re ...
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1976 Maltese general election
General elections were held in Malta on 17 and 18 September 1976.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1302 The Malta Labour Party remained the largest party, winning 34 of the 65 seats.
Electoral syste ...
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1976 Polish legislative election
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1976 Portuguese presidential election
The 1976 Portuguese presidential election was held on 27 June.
With a broad base of support that comprised the center-left and the center-right, Ramalho Eanes won the election on the first round and became the first elected President of Portugal ...
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1976 Portuguese legislative election
The 1976 Portuguese legislative election was held on Sunday 25 April, exactly one year after the previous election, and two years after the Carnation Revolution. With a new Constitution approved, the country's main aim was economic recovery and st ...
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1976 Portuguese local election
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1976 Stockholm municipal election
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1976 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 1976. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1858 Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 152 of the 349 seats in th ...
France
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1976 French cantonal elections
Germany
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1976 West German federal election
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 3 October 1976 to elect the members of the 8th Bundestag. Although the CDU/CSU alliance became the largest faction in parliament, Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party remained Chancellor.
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The Americas
Canada
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1976 Brantford municipal election
The 1976 Brantford municipal election was held on December 6, 1976, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The rural and small-town communities near Brantford also held elections on the same day.
Charles ...
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1976 Ontario municipal elections
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1976 Ottawa municipal election The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 6, 1976.
Mayor Lorry Greenberg is easily re-elected.
Mayor
Ottawa Board of Control
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City council
Ottawa Board of Education
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1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election
The 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held at the Ottawa Civic Centre in Ottawa on February 22, 1976, to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to replace Robert Stanfield, who had resigned after losi ...
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1976 Quebec general election
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phi ...
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1976 Toronto municipal election
The Toronto municipal election of 1976 was held on December 6, 1976 in Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mayors, city councillors and school board trustees were elected in the municipalities of Toronto, York, East York, North York, Etobicoke ...
Caribbean
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1976 Antigua and Barbuda general election
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 18 February 1976.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p66 Whilst the Progressive Labour Movement received the most votes, the opposition Antigua Lab ...
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1976 Barbadian general election
General elections were held in Barbados on 2 September 1976.Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p90 The result was a victory for the Barbados Labour Party, which won 17 of the 24 seats, defeating the rulin ...
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1976 Jamaican general election
General elections were held in Jamaica on 15 December 1976. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p430 The result was a victory for the People's National Party, which won 47 of the 60 seats. Voter turnout ...
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1976 Trinidad and Tobago general election
General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 13 September 1976. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p635 The result was a victory for the People's National Movement, which won 24 of the 36 sea ...
El Salvador
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1976 Salvadoran legislative election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 14 March 1976.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for the ruling National Coalition Party (El Salvador), National Concili ...
United States
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1976 United States presidential election
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford from Michigan by a narrow ...
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1976 United States Senate elections
The 1976 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate that coincided with Democrat Jimmy Carter's presidential election and the United States Bicentennial celebration. Although almost half of the seats decided in t ...
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1976 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1976 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives that coincided with Jimmy Carter's election as president. Carter's narrow victory over Gerald Ford had limited coattails, and ...
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1976 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 2, 1976, in 14 states and one territory. Democrats achieved a net gain of one in these elections. This coincided with the House, Senate elections and the presidential election.
This was ...
United States gubernatorial
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1976 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 2, 1976, in 14 states and one territory. Democrats achieved a net gain of one in these elections. This coincided with the House, Senate elections and the presidential election.
This was ...
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1976 Washington gubernatorial election
California
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United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1976
New Mexico
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United States Senate election in New Mexico, 1976
North Carolina
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United States presidential election in North Carolina, 1976
South Carolina
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United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1976
United States House of Representatives
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United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1976
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1976 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1976 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives that coincided with Jimmy Carter's election as president. Carter's narrow victory over Gerald Ford had limited coattails, and ...
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United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1976
United States Senate
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1976 United States Senate elections
The 1976 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate that coincided with Democrat Jimmy Carter's presidential election and the United States Bicentennial celebration. Although almost half of the seats decided in t ...
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United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1976
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United States Senate election in New Mexico, 1976
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United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1976
Oceania
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1976 Nelson by-election
The Nelson by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Nelson a predominantly urban seat at the top of the South Island.
Background
The by-election was precipitated by the death of sitting Labour Party member of parliament ...
Australia
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1976 New South Wales state election
A general election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 1 May 1976. The result was a narrow win for the Labor Party under Neville Wran—the party's first in the state i ...
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1976 Tasmanian state election
South America
Falkland Islands
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1976 Falkland Islands general election
The Falkland Islands general election of 1976 was held in 1976 to elect members to the Legislative Council. Four out of the ten Councillors were elected through universal suffrage, two from Stanley and one each from East Falkland and West Falkland ...
See also
{{Electoral calendar navigation
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
Elections
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.
Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...