1981 Czechoslovak parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in
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on 5 and 6 June 1981.Czechoslovakia
Inter-Parliamentary Union
The National Front put forward a single list of candidates for both the House of the People (the lower house) and the House of Nations (the upper house) and one NF 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, 240 were assigned to the
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, 18 to the
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, 18 to the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, four to the
Party of Slovak Revival Party of Slovak Revival ( sk, Strana slovenskej obrody, SSO) was a political party founded in 1948 by pro-Communist members of the Slovak Democratic Party. It was accepted into the Czechoslovak National Front and got 17 seats in the Slovak parl ...
, four to the Freedom Party and 66 to independents. Voter turnout was reported to be 99.51%. 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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