Country: | Czechoslovakia |
Flag Year: | 1960 |
Type: | legislative |
Previous Election: | 1954 Czechoslovak parliamentary election |
Previous Year: | 1954 |
Next Election: | 1964 Czechoslovak parliamentary election |
Next Year: | 1964 |
Seats For Election: | All 300 seats in the National Assembly |
Turnout: | 99.68% |
Image1: | Antonín Novotný 1968.jpg |
Leader1: | Antonín Novotný |
Party1: | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
Alliance1: | National Front |
Seats After1: | 147 |
Seat Change1: | 25 |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Viliam Široký |
Before Party: | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
After Election: | Viliam Široký |
After Party: | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 12 June 1960.[1] Voters were presented with a single list from the National Front, dominated by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ).[1] According to official figures, 99.7 percent of eligible voters turned out to vote, and 99.9 percent of those who voted approved the National Front list.[1] Within the Front, the Communists had a large majority of 216 seats–147 for the main party and 69 for the Slovak branch.
Non-Communist members appeared on the National Front list in order to keep up the appearance of pluralism. However, seats were allocated in accordance with a set percentage, and no party could take part in the political process without KSČ approval.[2]
These was the last elections held under the Ninth-of-May Constitution. A month after the elections, the new National Assembly approved a new constitution that proclaimed "socialism has won" in Czechoslovakia, and changed the country's official name to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The new document made democratic centralism a part of constitutional law and defined Czechoslovakia as a socialist state under the leadership of the KSČ, codifying the actual state of affairs that had prevailed since the 1948 Communist takeover.[3]