1957 Senegalese Territorial Assembly election

Senegal Legislative Flag of France.svg 1952 Senegalese Territorial Assembly election 1952 31 March 1957 1959 Senegalese parliamentary election 1959 60 seats in the Territorial Assembly 31 1,063,946 55.04% Léopold Senghor, Pic, 5 (cropped).jpg Léopold Sédar Senghor Senegalese Popular Bloc 47 454,533 78.25% Amadou_Lamine-Guèye.jpg Lamine Guèye PSAS 12 105,085 18.09% 1957 Senegalese legislative election - Results by constituency.svg Results by constituency Territorial Assembly elections were held in Senegal on 31 March 1957.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p1858 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. Electoral system 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. Campaign 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.Chafer, Tony. The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization? Oxford: Berg, 2002. p. 210 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.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 Results One MP from Kédougou was elected from one of the various regional lists that contested the polls. No women were elected to the assembly.Fayé Kassé, Aminata. Women in Politics in Senegal https://web.archive.org/web/20110717170149/http://www.quotaproject.org/CS/CS_Senegal-Aminata_Kasse-final%202-6-2004.pdf 2011-07-17 File:Senegal Assemblee 1957.svg Senegalese Popular Bloc 454533 47 Senegalese Party of Socialist Action 105085 12 #ff2010 Djoloff Democratic Bloc 6159 0 Matam Cercel Progressive Bloc 5827 0 Fouta Toro Democratic Bloc 3720 0 Kédougou Democratic Bloc 2227 1 #CD853F United List for the Defense of the Interests of Lower Senegal 946 0 Workers and Peasants Bloc 791 0 Union for the Defense of the Interests of the Podor Cercle 383 0 Radical Party 40 0 Others 1128 0 4770 0 1063946 Mackenzie,Mackenzie, W. J. M. (Ed.). (1961). The Senegal elections. En Five elections in Africa: A group of electoral studies (p. 389). Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Archived) De BenoistJoseph-Roger de Benoist (1982) Afrique occidentale française de 1944 à 1960, p544 Aftermath After the elections, BPS selected Ibrahima Seydou N'Daw from Kaolack as the chair of the Assembly.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 References Category:Parliamentary elections in Senegal Senegal Territorial Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results