Moroccan general election, 1997

Moroccan parliamentary election, 1997

14 November 1997

All 325 seats to the Assembly of Representatives of Morocco 163 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Abderrahmane Youssoufi	Maati Bouabid	Ahmed Osman
Party	USFP	Constitutional Union	RNI
Last election	52	54	40
Seats won	57	50	46
Seat change	5	4	6
Popular vote	884,061	647,746	705,397
Percentage	13.9%	10.2%	11.1%
Swing	0.7%	2.6%	2.1%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Mohand Laenser	M'Hamed Boucetta
Party	Popular Movement	Istiqlal
Last election	51	52
Seats won	40	32
Seat change	11	20
Popular vote	659,331	840,315
Percentage	10.3%	13.8%
Swing	1.8%	0.6%

Prime Minister before election

Abdellatif Filali
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Abderrahmane Youssoufi
USFP

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Parliamentary elections were held in Morocco on 14 November 1997. The result was a victory for the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, which won 57 of the 319 seats in the Assembly of Representatives. Voter turnout was 58.3%.^[1]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
Socialist Union of Popular Forces	884,061	13.9	57	+5
Istiqlal Party	840,315	13.8	32	-20
National Rally of Independents	705,397	11.1	46	+6
People's Movement	659,331	10.3	40	-11
Constitutional Union	647,746	10.2	50	-4
Democratic and Social Movement	603,156	9.5	32	New
National Popular Movement	431,651	6.8	19	-6
Party of Renewal and Progress	274,862	4.3	9	New
National Democratic Party	270,425	4.2	10	-14
Constitutional and Democratic Popular Movement	264,324	4.1	9	New
Front of Democratic Forces	243,275	3.8	9	New
Democratic Socialist Party	188,520	3.0	5	New
Organisation for Democratic and Popular Action	184,009	2.9	4	+2
Action Party	89,614	1.4	2	0
Democratic Independence Party	76,176	1.2	1	-8
Movement for Democracy	8,768	0.1	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	1,085,366	-	-	-
Total	7,456,996	100	325	-7
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Nohlen, D, Krennerich, M & Thibaut, B (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p635 ISBN 0-19-829645-2

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