1989 Laotian parliamentary election

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Party		Leader	Seats
	LPRP	Kaysone Phomvihane	65
	Independents	–	14

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

President before	President after
Phoumi Vongvichit (acting) LPRP	Phoumi Vongvichit (acting) LPRP

Politics of Laos


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Parliamentary elections were held in Laos on 26 March 1989, the first since 1972, and the first since the Communist takeover in 1975.

A total of 121 candidates contested the 79 seats. All candidates had to be approved by the Lao Front for National Construction, dominated by the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party; around two-thirds of candidates were LPRP members. The LPRP won 65 seats, with independents whose candidacies had been approved by the Front taking the remainder. Voter turnout was reported to be 98.4%.

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Lao People's Revolutionary Party			65
	Independents			14
Total				79

Registered voters/turnout			98.4
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p135 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
Laos: Elections held in 1989 Inter-Parliamentary Union

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