Constitution Alteration ( Simultaneous Elections ) 1977 proposed for the second time that the Constitution be altered to ensure that elections for both houses of parliament occurred simultaneously.

Lofgren, G. E., and Gooley, R., 1977, Simultaneous crystallization of feldspar intergrowths from the melt: American Mineralogist, v. 62, p. 217-228

Chisembele later rejoined the Cabinet as Minister for Eastern Province and two years later in 1977 he was transferred in the same position to the Copperbelt Province, where the political situation was tense, especially so because of the forthcoming General Elections.

With the dissolution of Jana Sangh, Advani and his colleague Atal Bihari Vajpayee joined the Janata Party to fight the Lok Sabha Elections of 1977.

He settled at the time for the largely honorary post of Deputy Prime Minister of India. During 1977 Lok Sabha Elections, there was not a single party, hence it was problem, which symbol has to be adopted ( many parties joined the front to contest the elections after emergency was over ).

Voting in Provincial America: A Study of Elections in the Thirteen Colonies, 1689-1776 ( 1977 )

As the 1977 Legislative Elections approached, many began to seek for other options to vote for aside from the government-backed Golkar.

Elections were held to the council in 1973, 1977 and 1981.

Elections in late 1977 left the New Republic Party gutted, with only 10 parliamentary seats, down from the 41 the United Party had held previously.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered General Elections in March 1977.

Following the passage of the Yukon Elections Act in 1977, the Territorial Council was replaced by the current Legislative Assembly, which was elected for the first time in the 1978 election.

Elections were held on 7 March 1977.

Elections Alberta was created in 1977 to act as an independent body to oversee Alberta's elections.

This factionalism was displayed in the 1977 Legislative Elections, the first Legislative Elections that PDI participated in.

third and last in the 1977 Legislative Elections.

The 1977 Legislative Elections would also see a tense political battle between Golkar and PPP.

It broke away from the parent party in 1978 following Indira Gandhi's drubbing in the 1977 General Elections.

Elections were held to the Greater Manchester County Council in 1973, 1977 and 1981.

In the 1977 Local Government elections he received 981 first preference votes and was unsuccessful ( he did not run in the 1981 Local Government Elections ), and the 1982 Assembly election he received 503 first preference votes.

Despite the breakup, United Party contested the 1977 Elections and came with a majority of Members but Pangu formed a COalition with PPP, National Party, Melanesian Alliance and Mataungan against United / Country Party with Somare as Prime Minister.

Elections, which took place on 15 April 1977, produced the following results for Spanish Congress:

In 1977 Elections Alberta was created to independently oversee election laws.

Following the passage of the Yukon Elections Act in 1977, the 1978 election was the first time that voters in the Yukon elected representatives to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in an election organized along political party lines.

In the General Elections of 1977 PSC-C stood on joint lists with Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) as Socialistes de Catalunya.

* 1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.

In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20, 000 documents relating to project MKUltra, which led to Senate hearings later that same year.

These documents were fully investigated during the Senate Hearings of 1977.

1977 United States Senate report on MKUltra

In 1977, during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to look further into MKUltra, Admiral Stansfield Turner, then Director of Central Intelligence, revealed that the CIA had found a set of records, consisting of about 20, 000 pages, that had survived the 1973 destruction orders because they had been stored at a records center not usually used for such documents.

On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said:

On October 25, 1977, he addressed the Senate, and on November 3, 1977, Humphrey became the first person other than a member of the House or the president to address the House of Representatives in session.

The ceremonial post of Deputy President pro tempore was created for Hubert Humphrey, a former vice president, in 1977 following his losing bid to become the Senate majority leader.

He was the longest-serving Senate Majority Leader, serving from 1961 to 1977.

After retiring from the Senate, Mansfield served as U. S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988, and upon retiring as ambassador, was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( 1989 ), in part for his role in the impeachment of Republican President Richard Nixon Mansfield is the longest serving American ambassador to Japan in history.

Serving sixteen years, from 1961 until his retirement in 1977, Mansfield is the longest-serving Majority Leader in the history of the Senate.

Mansfield retired from the Senate in 1976, and was appointed Ambassador to Japan in April 1977 by Jimmy Carter, a role he retained during the Reagan administration until 1988.

President of the Alaska Senate ( 1975 – 1977 ), Democratic Party nominee for Alaska governor ( 1978 ), President of the University of Alaska Board of Regents ( 2001 – 2002 ).

For a number of years ( two periods, 1945 – 1950 and 1963 – 1977 ) he was a member of the Dutch Senate for the Labour Party, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee ( 1969 – 1977 ).

In 1946, he was elected to the Dutch Senate for the Dutch Labour Party ( PvdA ); his term lasted from 1946 to 1950 and later he had a second term, from 1963 to 1977.

In 1963, at the request of the Dutch Labour Party, he rejoined the Senate for a second term which would last until his resignation in 1977.

After resigning from the Dutch Senate in 1977, Brongersma devoted himself completely to the objectives of his foundation.

For the Australian Senate ( where each State forms a multi-seat constituency voting by single transferable vote ), the State Parliament appoints a replacement ; in 1977 a referendum amended the Constitution to require that the person appointed must belong to the same political party ( if any ) as the Senator originally elected to that seat.

* Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, of Gaelic Irish descent ; head of the Guinness family who sat in the Irish Senate ( 1973 – 1977 ).

The party doubled its membership in 1975 and in the 1977 general election D66 won two additional seats, although that same year the party lost all its seats in the Senate.

Mondale had held the same Senate seat from 1964 to 1977.