The following elections occurred in the year 1978.
Africa
1978 Cameroonian parliamentary election
1978 Comorian legislative election
1978 Comorian presidential election
1978 Egyptian protection of national unity and social peace referendum
1978 Ghanaian governmental referendum
1978 Malawian general election
1978 Rwandan constitutional referendum
1978 Rwandan presidential election
1978 Senegalese general election
1978 Sierra Leonean constitutional referendum
1978 South West African legislative election
1978 Sudanese parliamentary election
1978 Swazi general election
1978 Upper Voltan parliamentary election
1978 Upper Voltan presidential election
1978 Zambian general election
Asia
1978 Malaysian general election
1978 Maldivian presidential election
1978 Philippine parliamentary election
1978 Philippine parliamentary sectoral election
1978 Taiwan presidential election
Australia
1978 New South Wales state election
Europe
1978 Albanian parliamentary election
1978 Andorran political reform referendum
1978 Austrian nuclear power referendum
1978 Belgian general election
Cardinal electors in Papal conclaves, August and October 1978
1978 Danish electoral age referendum
1978 Icelandic parliamentary election
1978 Italian referendums
October 1978 Papal conclave
August 1978 Papal conclave
1978 Shetland referendum
Spanish constitutional referendum
1978 Swiss referendums
Vatican: two Papal conclaves: August 1978 Papal conclave October 1978 Papal conclave
France
1978 French legislative election
Germany
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