Which Communist governments became the first to negotiate organizing of competitive elections ?
The party received 0.7 % of the national vote in the 1973 elections , 0.5 % in the 1978 election , 1 % in 1983 , and 0.3 % in both the 1988 and 1993 elections : with its high - water mark coming in 1983 , with 67,681 votes .