Ubangi-Shari Territorial Assembly election, 1957

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Territorial Assembly elections were held in Ubangi-Shari on 31 March 1957. The first and second college system for giving separate seats to Europeans and Africans was scrapped, and all 50 seats elected by universal suffrage.^[1] The result was a victory for the Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa led by Barthélémy Boganda, which won all 50 seats.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa	348,352		50
Social Evolution of Haute-Sangha			0
Haute-Sangha Independents			0
Ouaka list			0
Invalid/blank votes		–	–
Total	365,550	100	50
Registered voters/turnout	622,384	58.7	–
Source: Sternberger et al.^[2]

↑ Parliament of the Central African Republic Juan Fandos-Rius
↑ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p2466 (German)

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