South African general election, 1977

South African general election, 1977
South Africa
30 November 1977 (1977-11-30)

All 165 seats in the House of Assembly
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader B. J. Vorster Colin Eglin Radclyffe Cadman
Party National Party Progressive Federal New Republic
Last election 123 7 41
Seats won 134 17 10
Seat change Increase11 Increase10 Decrease31

House of Assembly after the election

Prime Minister before election

B. J. Vorster
National Party

Elected Prime Minister

B. J. Vorster
National Party

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The 1977 South African general election was held on 30 November 1977. The National Party, led by John Vorster won a landslide victory in the House of Assembly. The newly formed Progressive Federal Party, led by Colin Eglin became the official opposition. The New Republic Party, successor to the United Party, won only 10 seats, all but one of them in Natal Province. Once again, the Herstigte Nasionale Party failed to win any seats.

In the 1977 elections the National Party got its best-ever result in the elections with support of 64.8% of the white voters and 134 seats in parliament out of 165. Vorster, however resigned as Prime Minister for alleged health reasons, not even a year later on 28 September 1978.

Results

Summary of the 30 November 1977 South African general election results

 
Party Leader Votes %Votes Seats Change %Seats
  National Party John Vorster 689 108 64.8% 134 +15 81.2%
  Progressive Federal Party Colin Eglin 177 705 16.7% 17 +11 10.3%
  New Republic Party Radclyffe Cadman 123 245 12.1% 10 -31 6.1%
  Herstigte Nasionale Party Jaap Marais 34 161 3.2% 0 ±0 0.0%
  South African Party Myburgh Streicher 17 915 1.7% 3 +3 2.2%
  Others 6 171 0.6% 1 +0 0.6%
Total 100.0% 165 -1 100.0%

Sources

African elections

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