Madagascar: 1965 National Assembly election results

Updated June 2010

The election was held on 8 August 1965.

Voting statistics

Registered voters	2 610 930
Total votes cast	2 465 536
% Turnout	94.43
Valid votes	2 431 887
Invalid votes	33 649
% invalid	1.36

Note: Thibaut gives the number of valid votes as 2 431 887 (see table above), but if one adds up the votes he allocates to the political parties they come to only 2 407 624 (see Total in table below), a difference of 24 263.

Table sources

Thibaut 1999, 541.

Results

Party	Votes	% Votes	Seats	% Seats
Social Democratic Party (PSD  Parti social démocrate)	2 277 055	94.58	104	97.20
Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar (AKFM  Antoko ny Kongresy ho an’ny Fahaleovantenan'i Magadasikara)	68 794	2.86	3	2.80
Others	61 775	2.57	0	0.00
Total	2 407 624	100.01	107	100.00

Table source

Thibaut 1999, 541, 542.

Reference

THIBAUT, B 1999 "Madagascar" IN Nohlen, D, Krennerich, M &; Thibaut, B (eds) Elections in Africa: A Data Handbook, Oxford Publishers.