Upper Voltan Territorial Assembly election, 1957

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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]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
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

References

↑ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p1585

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