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<a href="/wiki/House_of_Assembly_(South_Africa)" title="House of Assembly (South Africa)">House of Assembly</a><br />83 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registered</th><td class="infobox-data">2,193,635</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">48.52% (<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3.35pp)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">First party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Second party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Third party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #FF9933;"><span class="notpageimage noresize" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Vorster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/John_Vorster.jpg/97px-John_Vorster.jpg" decoding="async" width="97" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/John_Vorster.jpg/146px-John_Vorster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/John_Vorster.jpg/195px-John_Vorster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="599" /></a></span> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #005BA6;"><span class="notpageimage noresize" typeof="mw:File"><a 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Vorster</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Colin_Eglin" title="Colin Eglin">Colin Eglin</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Radclyffe_Cadman" title="Radclyffe Cadman">Radclyffe Cadman</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/National_Party_(South_Africa)" title="National Party (South Africa)">National</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Federal_Party" title="Progressive Federal Party">Progressive</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/New_Republic_Party_(South_Africa)" title="New Republic Party (South Africa)">New Republic</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">56.14%, 122 seats </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">6.37%, 6 seats </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span class="nowrap">32.84%, 41 seats<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>134</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">17 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">10 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 12 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 11 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 31 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>685,035</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">177,705 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">127,335 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>65.34%</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">16.95% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">12.15% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 9.20pp </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 10.58pp </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" 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The <a href="/wiki/National_Party_(South_Africa)" title="National Party (South Africa)">National Party</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/John_Vorster" title="John Vorster">B. J. Vorster</a> won a landslide victory in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Assembly_(South_Africa)" title="House of Assembly (South Africa)">House of Assembly</a>. The newly formed <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Federal_Party" title="Progressive Federal Party">Progressive Federal Party</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Colin_Eglin" title="Colin Eglin">Colin Eglin</a> became the <a href="/wiki/Official_opposition" class="mw-redirect" title="Official opposition">official opposition</a>. The New Republic Party, successor to the <a href="/wiki/United_Party_(South_Africa)" title="United Party (South Africa)">United Party</a>, won only 10 seats,<sup id="cite_ref-TheAge_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheAge-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> all but one of them in <a href="/wiki/Natal_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Natal Province">Natal Province</a>. Once again, the <a href="/wiki/Herstigte_Nasionale_Party" title="Herstigte Nasionale Party">Herstigte Nasionale Party</a> failed to win any seats. </p><p>In the 1977 elections, the National Party received its best-ever result with support of 65% of the vote and (after a by-election) 135 seats in parliament out of 165. However, Vorster resigned as prime minister for alleged health reasons on 28 September 1978. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1977_South_African_general_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 11 February 1975 four liberal MPs led by <a href="/wiki/Harry_Schwarz" title="Harry Schwarz">Harry Schwarz</a> broke away from the <a href="/wiki/United_Party_(South_Africa)" title="United Party (South Africa)">United Party</a> and created the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(South_Africa)" title="Reform Party (South Africa)">Reform Party</a>. The party merged with the <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_(South_Africa)" title="Progressive Party (South Africa)">Progressive Party</a> on 25 July 1975 to form the <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Reform_Party_(South_Africa)" title="Progressive Reform Party (South Africa)">Progressive Reform Party</a>. In 1977 another group of United Party members left the party to form the Committee for a United Opposition, which then joined the Progressive Reform Party to form the <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Federal_Party" title="Progressive Federal Party">Progressive Federal Party</a>. This proved to realign the opposition in Parliament, as the PFP became the official opposition party. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_system">Electoral system</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1977_South_African_general_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Electoral system"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The members of the House of Assembly were elected in single-member constituencies via <a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting">first-past-the-post voting</a>. The Senate consisted of 51 members: 43 elected by the electoral colleges of the country's four provinces (16 for the Transvaal, 11 for the Cape Province, and eight each for the Orange Free State and Natal) and eight appointed by the State President (two for each province). Only <a href="/wiki/White_South_Africans" title="White South Africans">White South Africans</a> were eligible to vote. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1977_South_African_general_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="House_of_Assembly">House of Assembly</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1977_South_African_general_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: House of Assembly"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Due to the death of the National Party candidate in the Springs constituency, one seat was left vacant until a by-election was held, which was won by the NP.<sup id="cite_ref-OY_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OY-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"><caption></caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="6" style="text-align:center;color:var( --color-base, #202122 );background:var( --background-color-neutral, #F8F9FA )"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:South_Africa_legislation,_1977.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/South_Africa_legislation%2C_1977.svg/360px-South_Africa_legislation%2C_1977.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/South_Africa_legislation%2C_1977.svg/540px-South_Africa_legislation%2C_1977.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/South_Africa_legislation%2C_1977.svg/720px-South_Africa_legislation%2C_1977.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a></span></th></tr><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Party</th><th scope="col">Votes</th><th scope="col">%</th><th scope="col">Seats</th><th scope="col">+/–</th></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FF9933"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_Party_(South_Africa)" title="National Party (South Africa)">National Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">685,035</td><td style="text-align:right">65.34</td><td style="text-align:right">134</td><td style="text-align:right">+12</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#005BA6"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Federal_Party" title="Progressive Federal Party">Progressive Federal Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">177,705</td><td style="text-align:right">16.95</td><td style="text-align:right">17</td><td style="text-align:right">+11</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FDB813"></td><td><a href="/wiki/New_Republic_Party_(South_Africa)" title="New Republic Party (South Africa)">New Republic Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">127,335</td><td style="text-align:right">12.15</td><td style="text-align:right">10</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FF1600"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Herstigte_Nasionale_Party" title="Herstigte Nasionale Party">Herstigte Nasionale Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">34,159</td><td style="text-align:right">3.26</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#00CED1"></td><td><a href="/wiki/South_African_Party_(Republic_of_South_Africa)" title="South African Party (Republic of South Africa)">South African Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">17,915</td><td style="text-align:right">1.71</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#DDDDBB"></td><td>Other parties and independents</td><td style="text-align:right">6,271</td><td style="text-align:right">0.60</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Vacant</td><td colspan="2"></td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">–</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold"><td colspan="2">Total</td><td style="text-align:right">1,048,420</td><td style="text-align:right">100.00</td><td style="text-align:right">165</td><td style="text-align:right">–6</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom"><td colspan="6" style="color:var( --color-base, #202122 );background:var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 )"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Valid votes</th><td>1,048,420</td><td>98.50</td><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Invalid/blank votes</th><td>15,930</td><td>1.50</td><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold;text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;background:inherit;color:inherit">Total votes</th><td>1,064,350</td><td>100.00</td><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Registered voters/turnout</th><td>2,193,635</td><td>48.52</td><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><td colspan="6" style="text-align:left">Source: Official Yearbook<sup id="cite_ref-OY_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OY-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span 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