Parliamentary elections were held in
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
on 25 April 1976, the first after the country was reunited following the
North's military victory over the
South the previous year. The
Vietnamese Fatherland Front
The Vietnamese Fatherland Front ( vi, Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam) is an umbrella group of mass movements in Vietnam aligned with the Communist Party of Vietnam forming the Vietnamese government. It was founded in February 1977 by the ...
was the only party to contest the election, and won all 492 seats. Voter turnout was reported to be 98.8%.
Candidates
In what had been North Vietnam, the
Workers' Party of Vietnam and other groups nominated 308 candidates for the 249 seats, while in the south, the
Alliance of National, Democratic and Peaceful Forces and
National Liberation Front nominated 297 candidates for the 243 seats. All were under the umbrella of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front. Although there were no candidates allowed from opposition parties, candidates included former activists (anti-war, non-communists), such as
Mrs. Ngo Ba Thanh, who had led the
Vietnamese Women's Movement for the Right to Live and , who had been a leader of the Saigon Students' Association's resistance movement.
Results
References
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Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
Elections in Vietnam
Parliamentary
A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ...
One-party elections