General elections were held in

Swaziland Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...

on 27 October 1978. The elections was held using the T

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system, in which voters elected 80 members (out of the 160 candidates) to an electoral college, who then selected 40 non-party candidates for the

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, whilst the

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appointed a further ten.Elections in Swaziland
African Elections Database The new system strengthened the position of the country's traditionalists.
EISA The number of seats had been increased from 24 (at the last election in 1972) to 50 due to a significant population increase. There was no voter registration and chiefs were required to ensure that only Swazi citizens could vote.

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1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

Election 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 opera ...

October 1978 events in Africa