The parliamentary elections in Senegal took place on March 31, 1957 , in which 60 deputies of the Senegalese Territorial Assembly were elected as a member of the French community [1] . As a result, the Senegalese People’s Bloc won a convincing victory, receiving 47 of the 60 seats of the local parliament. Competitive Party The African Socialist Movement alienated the Murabitans , which allowed the Senegalese people's bloc to win in rural areas, where religious leaders enjoyed special respect [2] .
← 1952  1959 → | |||
| Parliamentary elections in Senegal | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | |||
| March 31 | |||
| Voter turnout | 54.6% | ||
 |  | ||
| Candidate | Leopold Cedar Senghor | Amadou Lamin-Gay | |
| The consignment | Senegalese people's bloc | Senegalese Socialist Party | |
| Seats received | 47 (6 ▲ ) | 12 (new) | |
| Votes | 449 844 (78%) | 66,458 (11.5%) | |
 Party membership of the Territorial Assembly. | |||
Electoral system
Elections were held after the entry into force of the Reform Act on June 23, 1956, adopted on the initiative of Gaston Deffer , who introduced semi-autonomous governments in the French colonies of West Africa [3] .
Election Campaign
In most other Territorial Council elections in French West Africa, branches of the African Democratic Union dominated. However, in the Senegalese elections, the main struggle took place between the Senegalese parties affiliated with the African Convention and the African Socialist Movement [4] .
The Senegalese People’s Bloc, under the leadership of Leopold Sedar Senghor , affiliated with the African Convention, was formed shortly before the elections. During the pre-election campaign, Senghor, under socialist and nationalist slogans, was able to attract many trade unionists and left-wing intellectuals to the party leadership [3] .
Results
| The consignment | Vote | % | Places | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senegalese people's bloc | 449 844 | 78.0 | 47 | |
| Senegalese Socialist Party | 66,458 | 11.5 | 12 | |
| Regional listings | 58,465 | 10.1 | one | |
| Other | 1,631 | 0.3 | 0 | |
| Invalid / blank bulletins | 4,767 | - | - | |
| Total | 581 168 | 100 | 60 | |
| Registered Voters / Turnout | 1,063,946 | 54.6 | - | |
| Source: De Benoist [5] | ||||
Notes
- ↑ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika , Zweiter Halbband, p1858
- ↑ Roche, Christian. Le Sénégal à la conquête de son indépendance: 1939-1960: chronique de la vie politique et syndicale, de l'Empire français à l'indépendance . Hommes et sociétés. Paris: Karthala, 2001. p. 180
- ↑ 1 2 Boone, Catherine. Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal, 1930-1985 . Cambridge studies in comparative politics. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1992. p. 85
- ↑ Chafer, Tony. France: Successful Decolonization? Oxford: Berg, 2002. p. 210
- ↑ Joseph-Roger de Benoist (1982) Afrique occidentale française de 1944 à 1960 , p544