Parliamentary elections were held in Upper Volta on 30 April 1978. They followed a

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the previous year, which came about as a result of the 1974 military coup. A total of 367 candidates contested the elections.Upper Volta
Inter-Parliamentary Union The result was a victory for the Voltaic Democratic Union–African Democratic Rally, which won 28 of the 57 seats in the

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. Voter turnout was just 38.3%.

Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An exp ...

, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p134 The new constitution also limited the number of political parties to three, meaning that only the three largest parties in the Assembly were allowed to continue existing, resulting in the

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, the country's oldest party, virtually disappearing.

Results

References

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