1957 Upper Voltan Territorial Assembly election
Territorial Assembly elections were held in French Upper Volta on 31 March 1957. The result was a victory for the Unified Democratic Party (an alliance of the Voltaic Democratic Union-African Democratic Rally and the Social Party for the Emancipation of the African Masses), which won 33 of the 68 seats in the Assembly.[1]
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Results
| Party | Votes | % | Seats |
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| Unified Democratic Party | 538,876 | 55.5 | 33 |
| Voltaic Democratic Movement | 226,593 | 23.4 | 24 |
| Entente Fada N'Gourma | 98,301 | 10.1 | 5 |
| African Popular Movement | 79,743 | 8.2 | 5 |
| Other parties | 12,392 | 1.3 | 1 |
| Independents | 14,162 | 1.5 | 2 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 15,117 | – | – |
| Total | 985,184 | 100 | 70 |
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,902,668 | 51.8 | – |
| Source: Sternberger et al | |||
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References
- Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p1585
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