1973 Cameroonian parliamentary election

1973 Cameroonian parliamentary election

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All 120 seats in the National Assembly 60 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– UNC Ahmadou Ahidjo 100 120 +70 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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Parliamentary elections were held in Cameroon on 18 May 1973, the first since the promulgation of the country's new constitution approved in a referendum the previous year. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Cameroonian National Union as the sole legal party. 2,600 candidates ran for a place on the CNU list, with 120 eventually winning a place on it, equal to the number seats available in the enlarged National Assembly,^[1] winning all of them with a 98.4% turnout.^[2]