National People’s Congress · 5th term

China elections · 1978 · held

NPC term 5 is recorded with 3,497 deputies in the cited institutional series. This is a national legislature membership record, not a competitive nationwide party vote.

Indirect election — selection through an electoral body rather than a direct national popular vote. The record notes explain the selection process.

Results: final · partial coverage · NPC deputy membership by reported affiliation; no national popular vote

Our archive covers the national institutions of the People’s Republic of China. It does not include Republic of China elections or separate Hong Kong or Macao contests. National NPC totals retain the institution’s own delegations, including special administrative region delegations where applicable and its mainland-selected Taiwan delegation; this is not a record of elections conducted by Taiwan’s electorate.

The date is an archive cycle year, generally the year the new NPC first convened. Deputy selection takes place across different bodies and can start in the preceding year; 1 January is a storage anchor, not an election day. Membership totals follow the cited historical series through 2008 and the initial validated deputy lists for 2013–2023. They are not attendance totals, maximum quotas or the current membership after later vacancies and replacements.

The reported Communist Party membership count is taken from the linked historical composition table, a secondary compilation. The remaining deputies are grouped because separate allied-party and unaffiliated counts have not been established for this cycle. The remainder is calculated from the recorded chamber total, not relabelled as an independent-party seat count. The grey remainder is not an independent party, an opposition bloc or a shared ideology. A dash means a count is unknown, not zero. No popular vote shares are inferred. Colours distinguish categories visually; they do not signify competing electoral lists.

The 1975 and 1978 constitutions did not provide for the state presidency. The office was restored in the 1982 Constitution; no presidential selection is invented for this cycle.