Parliamentary elections were held in

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on 26 and 27 November 1971.Czechoslovakia
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and the

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, as well as the first elections in Czechoslovakia held in the

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of the Prague Spring. The National Front, dominated by the

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, put forward a single list of candidates for both houses of the Federal Assembly, the House of the People (the lower house) and the House of Nations (the upper house). A single NF-approved candidate ran in each single member constituency. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p465 With a total of 350 seats in the two Houses, 245 were assigned to the Communist Party, 20 to the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, 16 to the

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, four to the

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, four to the Freedom Party, and 61 to independents. Voter turnout was reported to be 99.45%. Like the other elections of the

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, the result was a

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. People were afraid not to vote, and when they did so, those who entered a voting booth to modify their ballot paper could expect to be persecuted by the state.Nohlen & Stöver, p457

Results

House of the People

House of Nations

References

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