# List of elections in 1978

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

* de:Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg 1978 (Hamburg)
* de:Landtagswahl in Niedersachsen 1978 (Lower Saxony)
* de:Landtagswahl in Hessen 1978 (Hesse)
* de:Landtagswahl in Bayern 1978 (Bavaria)

## North America

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

### Canada

* 1978 Brantford municipal election
* 1978 New Brunswick general election
* 1978 Ontario municipal elections
* 1978 Ottawa municipal election
* 1978 Prince Edward Island general election
* 1978 Saskatchewan general election
* 1978 Toronto municipal election
* 1978 Yukon general election

### United States

* 1978 United States Senate elections
* 1978 United States House of Representatives elections
* 1978 United States gubernatorial elections

#### United States mayoral

* 1978 Cleveland mayoral recall election
* 1978 Washington, D.C. mayoral election

#### United States gubernatorial

* 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election
* 1978 California gubernatorial election
* 1978 Maine gubernatorial election
* 1978 Minnesota gubernatorial election
* 1978 Oregon gubernatorial election
* 1978 South Carolina gubernatorial election
* 1978 Texas gubernatorial election
* 1978 United States gubernatorial elections

#### Arkansas

* 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election

#### California

* 1978 California gubernatorial election
* United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1978
* 1978 California Proposition 7
* 1978 California Proposition 8
* 1978 California Proposition 13

#### Florida

* 1978 Florida state elections

#### Illinois

* United States Senate election in Illinois, 1978

#### Maine

* 1978 Maine gubernatorial election
* United States Senate election in Maine, 1978

#### Minnesota

* 1978 Minnesota gubernatorial election

#### Nebraska

* United States Senate election in Nebraska, 1978

#### Ohio

* 1978 Cleveland recall election

#### Oregon

* 1978 Oregon gubernatorial election

#### South Carolina

* 1978 South Carolina gubernatorial election
* 1978 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina

#### Texas

* 1978 Texas gubernatorial election

#### United States House of Representatives

* 1978 United States House of Representatives elections
** United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1978
** United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1978

#### United States Senate

* 1978 United States Senate elections
** United States Senate election in Georgia, 1978
** United States Senate election in Illinois, 1978
** United States Senate election in Maine, 1978
** United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1978
** United States Senate election in Mississippi, 1978
** United States Senate election in Nebraska, 1978
** United States Senate election in North Carolina, 1978
** United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1978

#### Washington, D.C.

* 1978 Washington, D.C. mayoral 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

### Australia

* 1978 New South Wales state election

## South America

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