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Territorial Assembly elections were held in Senegal on 31 March 1957. [1] The result was a landslide victory for the Senegalese Popular Bloc (BPS), which won 47 of the 60 seats. Its main competitor, the MSA-affiliated Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS) had aliented the marabouts and enabled the BPS to win the rural vote (over which the marabouts held an important sway) by far. [2]
The elections had been called after the adoption of the Loi Cadre in 1956, which instituted a system of semiautonomous governments in the different colonies of French West Africa. [3]
Whilst most other Territorial Assembly elections were dominated by affiliates of the African Democratic Rally (RDA), the Senegalese elections saw a clash between the Senegalese parties affiliated to the African Convention (CA) and the African Socialist Movement (MSA) respectively. [4]
The CA-affiliated BPS had evolved out of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc just before the elections. In the run-up to the elections the BPS leader Léopold Sédar Senghor had a more socialist and nationalist discourse, attracting various trade unionists and leftwing intellectuals to join the BPS leadership. [3]
One MP from Kédougou was elected from one of the various regional lists that contested the polls. [5] No women were elected to the assembly. [6]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Senegalese Popular Bloc | 449,844 | 78.04 | 47 | |
Senegalese Party of Socialist Action | 66,458 | 11.53 | 12 | |
Regional lists | 58,465 | 10.14 | 1 | |
Others | 1,631 | 0.28 | 0 | |
Total | 576,398 | 100.00 | 60 | |
Valid votes | 576,398 | 99.18 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 4,770 | 0.82 | ||
Total votes | 581,168 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,063,946 | 54.62 | ||
Source: De Benoist [5] |
After the elections, BPS selected Ibrahima Seydou N'Daw from Kaolack as the chair of the Assembly. [2]
Senegal portal |
Territorial Assembly elections were held in Senegal on 31 March 1957. [1] The result was a landslide victory for the Senegalese Popular Bloc (BPS), which won 47 of the 60 seats. Its main competitor, the MSA-affiliated Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS) had aliented the marabouts and enabled the BPS to win the rural vote (over which the marabouts held an important sway) by far. [2]
The elections had been called after the adoption of the Loi Cadre in 1956, which instituted a system of semiautonomous governments in the different colonies of French West Africa. [3]
Whilst most other Territorial Assembly elections were dominated by affiliates of the African Democratic Rally (RDA), the Senegalese elections saw a clash between the Senegalese parties affiliated to the African Convention (CA) and the African Socialist Movement (MSA) respectively. [4]
The CA-affiliated BPS had evolved out of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc just before the elections. In the run-up to the elections the BPS leader Léopold Sédar Senghor had a more socialist and nationalist discourse, attracting various trade unionists and leftwing intellectuals to join the BPS leadership. [3]
One MP from Kédougou was elected from one of the various regional lists that contested the polls. [5] No women were elected to the assembly. [6]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Senegalese Popular Bloc | 449,844 | 78.04 | 47 | |
Senegalese Party of Socialist Action | 66,458 | 11.53 | 12 | |
Regional lists | 58,465 | 10.14 | 1 | |
Others | 1,631 | 0.28 | 0 | |
Total | 576,398 | 100.00 | 60 | |
Valid votes | 576,398 | 99.18 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 4,770 | 0.82 | ||
Total votes | 581,168 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,063,946 | 54.62 | ||
Source: De Benoist [5] |
After the elections, BPS selected Ibrahima Seydou N'Daw from Kaolack as the chair of the Assembly. [2]