1982 Mauritian general election
General elections were held in Mauritius on 11 June 1982. 360 candidates representing 22 parties contested the election,[1] the result of which was a landslide victory for the Mauritian Militant Movement–Mauritian Socialist Party alliance, which won all 60 of the directly elected mainland seats.[2]
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The voting system involved twenty constituencies on Mauritius, which each elected three members. Two seats were elected by residents of Rodrigues, and up to eight seats were filled by the "best losers",[3] although following this election, only four "best loser" seats were awarded. Voter turnout was 87.3%.[4]
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam received funding from the CIA during the election.[5]
Results
Of the 60 seats won by the MMM–MSP alliance, 42 were taken by the MMM and 18 by the MSP.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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| Cons | BL | Total | +/– | |||||
| MMM–MSP | 906,800 | 63.02 | 60 | 0 | 60 | +26 | ||
| National Alliance Party[lower-alpha 1] | 357,385 | 24.84 | 0 | 2 | 2 | –26 | ||
| Mauritian Social Democrat Party | 120,214 | 8.36 | 0 | 2 | 2 | –6 | ||
| Rodrigues People's Organisation | 16,129 | 1.12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | ||
| Mauritian Islamic Party | 9,334 | 0.65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Independent Forward Bloc | 6,134 | 0.43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mauritian Democratic Union | 1,558 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| National Liberation Front | 1,325 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Mauritius National Party | 1,285 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Liberal Movement of the North | 910 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Mauritius Young Labour Movement | 523 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Republican Centre Party | 454 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Independent Democratic Movement | 334 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Socialist Zenes | 265 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Mauritian Radical Movement | 255 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Organisation of Mauritian People | 189 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Tamil Fraternity of Mauritius-Hindu Progressive Movement | 118 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Mauritian Socialist Congress | 115 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Dhravediennes United Party | 96 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
| Independents | 15,393 | 1.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 1,438,816 | 100.00 | 62 | 4 | 66 | –4 | ||
| Source: Nohlen et al. | ||||||||
- Alliance of the Labour Party, Muslim Committee of Action and dissidents from the Mauritian Social Democrat Party.
References
- Mauritius: General election of June 1982 EISA
- Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p618 ISBN 0-19-829645-2
- Mauritius: Background to the 1967 Legislative Assembly election EISA
- Mauritius: 1982 Legislative Assembly election results EISA
- Levin, Dov H. (2016-09-19). "Partisan electoral interventions by the great powers: Introducing the PEIG Dataset". Conflict Management and Peace Science. 36 (1): 88–106. doi:10.1177/0738894216661190. ISSN 0738-8942.