Malawian general election, 1978

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General elections were held in Malawi on 29 June 1978. As the country had become a single-party state in 1966, the Malawi Congress Party was the sole legal party at the time. However, unlike the two previous elections, in which President-for-life Hastings Banda had selected a single candidate for each constituency, in this election there were more than one nominated candidates in 47 of the 87 seats.^[1] Candidates ran unopposed in 33 of the remaining seats, and seven were left vacant as the candidates failed the English proficiency test. Of the estimated 3,000,000 registered voters, around 371,000 cast votes.^[1]

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Elections and referendums in Malawi Presidential elections 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 Parliamentary elections 1956 1961 1964 1971 1976 1978 1983 1987 1992 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 Referendums 1993 See also: Elections in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland