1959 Italian Somaliland parliamentary election

none Parliamentary elections were held in the Italian Trust Territory of Somaliland on 8 March 1959. Amidst a boycott by the Somali Independent Constitutional Party and the Greater Somalia League, the result was a victory for the ruling Somali Youth League, which won 83 of the 90 seats in the enlarged Legislative Council,Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p812 0-19-829645-2 despite the party's number of votes falling from 333,820 to 237,134.Elections in Somalia https://web.archive.org/web/20250211174838/https://africanelections.tripod.com/so.html 2025-02-11 African Elections Database Results Somali Youth League 237134 83 +40 Somali Independent Constitutional Party 40857 5 New Liberal Party 35769 2 New +20 Nohlen et al. References Parliamentary election Italian Category:Parliamentary elections in Somalia Italian Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results