1968 Spanish Guinean general election

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1968 Spanish Guinean general election

Registered137,755
Presidential election
22 September 1968 (first round)
29 September 1968 (second round)
1989 →
Turnout67.48% (first round)
79.20% (second round)
 
Candidate Francisco Macías Nguema Bonifacio Ondó Edú
Party IP MUN
Popular vote 68,310 40,254
Percentage 62.92% 37.08%

Elected President

Francisco Macías Nguema
Popular Idea

Parliamentary election
← 1964 22 September 1968 1973 →

All 35 seats in the National Assembly
18 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats
MLN

10
MUNGE

10
IP

8
UB

7
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

General elections were held in Spanish Guinea on 22 September 1968 to elect a President and National Assembly that would lead the country when it gained independence as Equatorial Guinea later that year. A second round of the presidential election was held on 29 September.

Francisco Macías Nguema of the Popular Idea led the field in the first round, advancing to a runoff with Prime Minister Bonifacio Ondó Edú. With the endorsement of eliminated candidates Atanasio Ndongo and Edmundo Bossio, Macías Nguema defeated Ondó Edú in the runoff. Ondó Edú's National Unity Movement and Ndongo's National Liberation Movement won ten seats each in the National Assembly, while the Popular Idea won eight.[1] Voter turnout was 67 percent in the first round and 79 percent in the second round.

After Macias Nguema's victory, he appointed Ndongo as Equatorial Guinea's first Foreign Minister and Bossio as Vice-President, while he ordered Ondó Edú's execution shortly after independence. To date, it has been the only free election ever held in Equatorial Guinea. Over the next four years, Macias Nguema consolidated his power step by step; in 1970 he set up the United National Workers' Party as the only legally permitted party in the country and by 1972 he had declared himself President for Life with dictatorial powers. As a result, the 1968 elections would be the last contested elections held in the country until 1993.

Results

President

CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Francisco Macías NguemaPopular Idea36,71640.0568,31062.92
Bonifacio Ondó EdúNational Unity Movement [es]31,94134.8440,25437.08
Atanasio NdongoNational Liberation Movement [es]18,22319.88
Edmundo BossioBubi Union [es]4,7955.23
Total91,675100.00108,564100.00
Valid votes91,67598.62108,56499.51
Invalid/blank votes1,2811.385370.49
Total votes92,956100.00109,101100.00
Registered voters/turnout137,75567.48137,75579.20
Source: African Elections Database

National Assembly

PartySeats
National Liberation Movement10
National Unity Movement10
Popular Idea8
Bubi Union7
Total35
Source: African Elections Database

Elected members

References

  1. ^ Elections in Equatorial Guinea African Elections Database
  2. ^ Rafael de Mendizábal Allende (2018) Misión en África. La descolonización de Guinea Ecuatorial (1968-1969) p102
  3. ^ Africa; revista de acción española, Volume 25, p24