1963 French Somaliland Territorial Council election

Territorial Council elections were held in French Somaliland on 18 November 1963.Virginia Thompson & Richard Adloff (1968) Djibouti and the Horn of Africa, Stanford University Press, p81 Ali Aref Bourhan was elected president of the Executive Council following the elections.Djibouti https://web.archive.org/web/20141129093656/http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&tid=2041517 2014-11-29 Arago Electoral system The elections were held using plurality voting in seven districts, with voters casting votes for candidate lists.Djibouti: History Nations Encyclopedia Results Afar Democratic Union 21 New Party of the People's Movement 6 New Issa Democratic Union 2 New Others 3 – 0 21408 28728 JPRS, Thompson & Adloff By ethnicity Ethnic groupSeats+/–Afars16+3Issas80Somalis3–3Europeans40Arabs10Total320Source: Sternberger et al.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband, p636 Aftermath Following the elections, Ali Aref Bourhan was elected vice-president of the Assembly by a vote of 27–5.Thompson & Adloff, p82 References French Somaliland Territorial Category:Parliamentary elections in Djibouti French Somaliland Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results