1984 Moroccan general election

1984 Moroccan general election
Morocco
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306 seats in the House of Representatives
157 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
UC Maati Bouabid 24.79 83 New
RNI Ahmed Osman 17.18 61 New
MP Abdelkrim al-Khatib 15.54 47 +32
Istiqlal 15.33 41 −10
USFP Abderrahim Bouabid 12.39 36 +35
PND 8.92 24 New
PPS Ali Yata 2.30 2 0
DPAO 0.74 1 New
PUSN 0.22 1 New
UMT 5 −2
CDT 3 New
UGTM 2 +2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Mohammed Karim Lamrani
Independent
Mohammed Karim Lamrani
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Morocco on 14 September 1984, having originally been scheduled for September 1983, but postponed due to issues over the future of Western Sahara. The number of directly elected seats increased from 176 to 199, whilst the number of indirectly elected seats rose from 88 to 102 (60 elected by local councillors, 32 by professional bodies and 10 by workers' organisations).[1] The indirectly elected seats were chosen on 2 October.

Twelve parties and 1,333 candidates contested the election. The result was a victory for the Constitutional Union, which won 82 of the 301 seats. Voter turnout was 67.4%.[2]

  1. ^ Morocco Inter-Parliamentary Union
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p54 ISBN 0-19-829645-2