HC Deb 29 June 1990 vol 175 cc384-5W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in descending order information available to him on the percentage of the popular vote received by the main governing party on the latest free elections held in each of the NATO and Warsaw pact countries.

Mr. Waldegrave

The figures are as follows:

Per cent.
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NATO)
United States (1988)
President Bush as Republican presidential candidate 53
Portugal (1987)
Social Democrats 50.15
Greece (1990)
New Democracy Party 46.91
Federal Republic of Germany (1987)
CDU/CSU 44.3
Canada (1988)
Progressive Conservative Party 43
United Kingdom (1987)
Conservative Party 42.3
Spain (1989)
Socialist Party 39.50
France (1988)
Socialist Party (National Assembly elections) 37.5
Turkey (1987)
Motherland Party (ANAP) 36.3
Netherlands (1989)
Governing coalition:
Christian Democratic Alliance 35.3
Labour Party 31.9
Italy (1987)
Christian Democrats (largest party in coalition) 34.3
Luxembourg (1989)
Governing coalition:
Christian Social Party 32.67
Socialists 26.47
Belgium (1987)
Governing coalition (with a third smaller party)
Christian Social Party 27.5
Socialist Party 30.6

Per cent.
Norway (1989)
Conservative Party (minority coalition) 22.2
Denmark (1988)
Conservative People's Party (minority coalition) 19.3
Iceland (1987)
Progressive Party (leading party in coalition) 18.9
WARSAW PACT
Romania
National Salvation Front 66
Poland
Solidarity (Senate elections) 65
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Socialist Party 53
Czechoslovakia
Czech governing party—Civic Forum
Slovak governing party—Public Against 51
Violence 33
German Democratic Republic
Christian Democratic Union 41
Hungary
Democratic Forum (first round)1 25
1 No percentage of the popular vote is available for the second round, in which the Democratic Forum obtained 43 per cent. of the seats allocated in that round.