1978 Peruvian Constituent Assembly election
{{Politics of Peru}}
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Peru on 18 June 1978.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p454 {{ISBN|978-0-19-928358-3}} The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, led by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, emerged as the largest party, winning 37 of the 100 seats.Nohlen, p462
The military dictatorship declared that it would respect the results of the election.{{Citation |last=Cotler |first=Julio |title=Peru since 1960 |date=1991 |work=The Cambridge History of Latin America: Volume 8: Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America |volume=8 |pages=451–508 |editor-last=Bethell |editor-first=Leslie |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-latin-america/peru-since-1960/912B086D53BEAA202D384745A0C7728F |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/chol9780521266529.009 |isbn=978-0-521-26652-9}}
Results
{{Election results
|image=File:Elecciones Asamblea Constituyente Peru 1978.svg
|party1=American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|votes1=1240674|seats1=37
|party2=Christian People's Party|votes2=835285|seats2=25
|party3=Worker Peasant Student and Popular Front|votes3=433413|seats3=12
|party4=Revolutionary Socialist Party|votes4=232520|seats4=6|color4=red
|party5=Peruvian Communist Party|votes5=207612|seats5=6|color5=#DC143C
|party6=Popular Democratic Unity|votes6=160741|seats6=4
|party7=National Front of Workers and Peasants|votes7=135552|seats7=4
|party8=Christian Democrat Party|votes8=83075|seats8=2
|party9=National Union Party|votes9=74137|seats9=2|color9=#112552
|party10=Pradist Democratic Movement|votes10=68619|seats10=2
|party11=Socialist Revolutionary Action|votes11=20164|seats11=0
|party12=Reformist Democratic Party|votes12=19594|seats12=0
|invalid=661576
|total_sc=0
|electorate=4978831
|source=[https://pdba.georgetown.edu/Elecdata/Peru/1978Asam.html PDBA]
}}