1961 Guinean presidential election

none Guinea presidential 15 January 1961 99.38% 1968 Guinean general election 1968 Ahmed Sekoú in 1962 at White House cropped.jpg Ahmed Sékou Touré Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally 1,576,580 100% President Ahmed Sékou Touré Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally Ahmed Sékou Touré Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally Presidential elections were held in Guinea for the first time on 15 January 1961. Incumbent Ahmed Sékou Touré, who had automatically become President when the country gained independence in 1958, was the only candidate (as the country as a one-party state with his Democratic Party of Guinea as the sole legal party at the time), and was re-elected unopposed.Elections in Guinea https://web.archive.org/web/20180910013348/http://africanelections.tripod.com/gn.html 2018-09-10 African Elections Database Results Ahmed Sekou Touré Democratic Party of Guinea 1576580 167 1586544 Sternberger et al.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband, p839 References Guinea Category:Presidential elections in Guinea Presidential Category:Single-candidate elections Category:One-party elections