1966 United Nations Security Council election
The 1966 United Nations Security Council election was held on 11 November 1966 during the Twenty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, and India, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1967.
Rules
The Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.In accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:
- One for African countries
- One for countries from the Asian Group
- One for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Two for the Western European and Others Group
Owing to a charter amendment adding four seats to the Security Council, Uganda and New Zealand had been assigned 1-year terms at the previous election and stood down at this election.
Result
At this time, the United Nations had 121 member states. There were no nominations before the election. The election was managed by then-President of the United Nations General Assembly Abdul Rahman Pazhwak of Afghanistan and one of the Vice-Presidents, a Mr. Solomon of Trinidad and Tobago.Voting was conducted on a single ballot. Ballots containing more states from a certain region than seats allocated to that region were invalidated.
| Member | Round 1 |
| 114 | |
| 114 | |
 Ethiopia|1897DENIND |