1957 Upper Voltan Territorial Assembly election

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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.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Unified Democratic Party	538,876	55.55	33
	Voltaic Democratic Movement	226,593	23.36	24
	Entente Fada N'Gourma	98,301	10.13	5
	African Popular Movement	79,743	8.22	5
	Other parties	12,392	1.28	1
	Independents	14,162	1.46	2
Total		970,067	100.00	70

Valid votes		970,067	98.47
Invalid/blank votes		15,117	1.53
Total votes		985,184	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,902,668	51.78
Source: Sternberger et al.

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

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