1961 Burundian legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Burundi on 8 September 1961 in order to install a government to rule the country following independence from Belgium on 1 July 1962.[1] The result was a victory for the Union for National Progress, which won over 80% of the vote and 58 of the 64 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 75.39%.
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Results
| Party | Votes | % | Seats |
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| Union for National Progress | 627,453 | 81.23 | 58 |
| Common Front[a] | 138,406 | 17.92 | 6 |
| Association of the Middle Classes, Clerks, and Intellectuals of Burundi | 3,470 | 0.45 | 0 |
| Union of People's Parties | 2,452 | 0.32 | 0 |
| African National Union of Ruanda-Urundi | 1,641 | 0.21 | 0 |
| Burundi People | 1,461 | 0.19 | 0 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 8,144 | – | – |
| Total | 783,027 | 100 | 64 |
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,038,653 | 75.4 | – |
| Source: African Elections Database | |||
a The Party of the People won four of the six seats, with the Christian Democratic Party taking the remaining two.[2]
gollark: If the government throws piles of money at free education, you would, presumably, eventually get the majority of people going through university or something. Which would be nice, if it did not also cost a vast amount of money. And at the same time you dilute... whatever the degree is supposed to represent... and I don't really know what happens.
gollark: But that university has basically no incentive to have reasonable prices.
gollark: I said "many", not "all".
gollark: The government throwing money at it will not make that better.
gollark: In many cases you just need to have *a degree* of some sort, even if it's completely pointless, because it shows... that you have the patience to do a thing for 4 years or something??
References
- Burundi: 1961 Legislative Assembly election results EISA
- Nohlen, D, Krennerich, M & Thibaut, B (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p161 ISBN 0-19-829645-2
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