North Vietnamese legislative election, 1960
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on 8 May 1960. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II'', p331 Only candidates representing the
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(an alliance of the
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together with various bloc parties and satellite organisations) contested the election, whilst an additional 59 seats were reserved for deputies elected in what became South Vietnam in 1946. Voter turnout was reported to be 99.9%.


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North Vietnam North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; vi, Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), was a socialist state supported by the Soviet Union (USSR) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Southeast Asia that existed f ...
Parliamentary election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
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