1955 Haitian parliamentary election

none Parliamentary elections were held in Haiti on 9 January 1955.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p381 978-0-19-928357-6 They were rigged by President Paul Magloire to ensure that Daniel Fignolé (a former leader of the Peasant Worker Movement Party that Magloire had banned) would not be elected to the Chamber of Deputies.https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/haitians-strike-and-overthrow-dictator-1956 Haitians strike and overthrow a dictator, 1956 Global Nonviolent Action Database 2019-04-02 Following the elections, Fignolé was jailed and his Haiti Democratique newspaper was shut down. Magloire also cracked down on institutions he saw as potential sources of dissent, dissolving the Faculty of Medicine and closing schools across the country. References Haiti Category:1955 in Haiti Category:Elections in Haiti Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:January 1955 in North America