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 Mauritania portal |
Presidential elections were held in Mauritania on 8 August 1976, alongside a parliamentary by-election for the new seven seats representing Tiris El Gharbiya, the Mauritanian-occupied area of Western Sahara. At the time, the country was a one-party state with the Mauritanian People's Party (PPM) as the sole legal party. Its leader, incumbent President Moktar Ould Daddah, was the only candidate and was re-elected unopposed.[1] Voter turnout was 97.9%. They were the last elections held until the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1992.[2]
The elections were held during a time when Mauritania along with Morocco held a treaty to partition provinces of Western Sahara during 1975 while independence was fought in the province by Polisario Front. Daddah claimed that the winning the elections was a mandate for annexing the provinces of Western Sahara.[3]
- ^ "Elections in Mauritania". African Elections Database. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
- ^ Nohlen, Dieter; Krennerich, Michael; Thibaut, Bernard (1999). Elections in Africa: A Data Handbook. Oxford University Press. p. 596. ISBN 9780198296454.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Saharawas invoked but never defined (see the help page).