Country: | Comoros |
Flag Year: | 1978 |
Type: | presidential |
Election Date: | 22 October 1978 |
Next Election: | 1984 Comorian presidential election |
Next Year: | 1984 |
Image1: | Ahmed Abdallah(cropped).png |
Nominee1: | Ahmed Abdallah |
Party1: | Comorian Union for Progress |
Popular Vote1: | 195,186 |
Percentage1: | 100% |
President | |
Before Election: | Said Mohamed Jaffar |
Posttitle: | Elected President |
After Election: | Ahmed Abdallah |
After Party: | Comorian Union for Progress |
Presidential elections were held in the Comoros on 22 October 1978 following the approval of a new constitution in a referendum earlier in the month. The only candidate was Ahmed Abdallah, who had been President at the time of independence, before being ousted in a coup on 2 August 1975, then reinstated following another on 13 May 1978, since which he had held the post of "Co-Chairman of the Politico-Military Directorate of the Federal and Islamic Republic of Comoros" alongside Mohamed Ahmed. He was elected unopposed.[1]