1986 Czechoslovak parliamentary election
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 23 and 24 May 1986.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 Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...
& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p465
With a total of 350 seats in the two Houses, 242 were assigned to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 18 to the
Czechoslovak People's Party Czechoslovak may refer to: *A demonym or adjective pertaining to Czechoslovakia (1918–93) **First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–38) ** Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–39) **Third Czechoslovak Republic (1948–60) **Fourth Czechoslovak Repu ...
, 18 to the
Czechoslovak Socialist Party Czech National Social Party (Czech: ''Česká strana národně sociální'', ČSNS) is a civic nationalist political party in the Czech Republic, that once played an important role in Czechoslovakia during the interwar period. It was established ...
, 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 64 to independents. Voter turnout was reported to be 99.39%. Like the other elections of the Communist era, the result was a foregone conclusion. 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

{{Czechoslovakian elections Czechoslovakia Parliamentary Elections in Communist Czechoslovakia One-party elections Single-candidate elections Czechoslovakia