South African general election, 1977

30 November 1977 (1977-11-30)

All 165 seats in the House of Assembly

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	B. J. Vorster	Colin Eglin	Radclyffe Cadman
Party	National Party	Progressive Federal	New Republic
Last election	123	7	41
Seats won	134	17	10
Seat change	11	10	31

House of Assembly after the election

Prime Minister before election

B. J. Vorster
National Party

Elected Prime Minister

B. J. Vorster
National Party

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The 1977 South African general election was held on 30 November 1977. The National Party, led by John Vorster won a landslide victory in the House of Assembly. The newly formed Progressive Federal Party, led by Colin Eglin became the official opposition. The New Republic Party, successor to the United Party, won only 10 seats, all but one of them in Natal Province. Once again, the Herstigte Nasionale Party failed to win any seats.

In the 1977 elections the National Party got its best-ever result in the elections with support of 64.8% of the white voters and 134 seats in parliament out of 165. Vorster, however resigned as Prime Minister for alleged health reasons, not even a year later on 28 September 1978.

Results

Summary of the 30 November 1977 South African general election results


	Leader	Votes	%Votes	Seats	Change	%Seats
National Party	John Vorster	689 108	64.8%	134	+15	81.2%
Progressive Federal Party	Colin Eglin	177 705	16.7%	17	+11	10.3%
New Republic Party	Radclyffe Cadman	123 245	12.1%	10	-31	6.1%
Herstigte Nasionale Party	Jaap Marais	34 161	3.2%	0	±0	0.0%
South African Party	Myburgh Streicher	17 915	1.7%	3	+3	2.2%
Others		6 171	0.6%	1	+0	0.6%
Total			100.0%	165	-1	100.0%

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Elections and referendums in South Africa

General elections	1910 1915 1920 1921 1924 1929 1933 1938 1943 1948 1953 1958 1961 1966 1970 1974 1977 1981 1984 1987 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Municipal elections	1995–96 2000 2006 2011 2016

Referendums	1960 1983 1992

See also: Elections and referendums in the Boer republics and South African colonies Elections and referendums in South African Bantustans

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