General elections were held in Gabon on 25 February 1973 to elect a President and the National Assembly. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) as the sole legal party. PDG leader and incumbent president Omar Bongo was the only candidate in the presidential election, and was unopposed for a full term.Elections in Gabon African Elections Database Bongo had ascended as president after Léon M'ba died just days after swearing-in for a second term in 1967; Bongo had declared the PDG to be the only legally permitted party a year later.
In the National Assembly election, voters were presented with a single list of 70 PDG candidates, one for each seat in the expanded Assembly.Gabon Inter-Parliamentary Union
Voter turnout was allegedly 97.8%.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p403
Results President
National Assembly
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