1969 Somali parliamentary election

Member State of the Arab League Parliamentary elections were held in Somalia on 26 March 1969.

[1] The result was a victory for the Somali Youth League (SYL), which won 73 of the 123 seats.

The SYL held 109 seats by the end of May, in addition to being in a coalition with the Somali National Congress.

[2] This was to be the last election in Somalia prior to a coup d'état on 21 October, when officers of the far-left Supreme Revolutionary Council led by Siad Barre transformed Somalia into a single-party Marxist-Leninist state that would last until the fall of the regime in 1991.

In the remaining districts, seats were distributed using party-list proportional representation and the Hare quota.