The following elections occurred in the year 1978.

Contents

• Africa
• Asia
• Australia
• Europe
• France
• Germany
• North America
• Canada
• United States
• Oceania
• Australia 2
• South America
• See also

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
• 1978 Danish electoral age referendum
• 1978 Icelandic parliamentary election
• 1978 Italian referendums
• 1978 Shetland referendum
• 1978 Spanish constitutional referendum
• 1978 Swiss referendums
• Vatican: two conclaves:
  • August 1978 conclave
  • October 1978 conclave

North America

• 1978 Dominican presidential election
• Greenlandic alcohol referendum
• 1978 Guatemalan general election
• 1978 Panamanian parliamentary election
• 1978 Panamanian presidential election
• 1978 Salvadoran legislative election

Oceania

• 1978 American Samoan referendum
• 1978 Cook Islands general election
• 1978 New Zealand general election
• 1978 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands constitutional referendum
• 1978 Rangitikei by-election

South America

• 1978 Chilean national consultation
• 1978 Ecuadorian constitutional referendum
• 1978 Guyanese constitutional referendum
• 1978 Peruvian Constituent Assembly election
• 1978 Venezuelan presidential election

See also