1954 Gold Coast general election

none 1954 06 15 1954 Gold Coast general election Gold Coast 1877 parliamentary 1951 1951 Gold Coast general election 1956 Gold Coast general election 1956 All 104 seats in the legislative assembly 53 Convention People's Party File:Kwame Nkrumah - The National Archives UK - CO 1069-50-1.jpg Kwame Nkrumah Accrah Central 72 34 Northern People's Party Simon Diedong Dombo 15 N/A Northern People's Party 391,817 68,709 9.72% 55.44% List of MLAs elected in the 1954 Gold Coast general election List of MLAs elected in the 1951 Gold Coast general election General elections were held in the Gold Coast on 15 June 1954. They were the first elections under full adult suffrage in the Gold Coast.Cheeseman Nic https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781108265126/type/book The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa: Democracy, Voting and Virtue Lynch Gabrielle Willis Justin 2021 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-26512-6 63 10.1017/9781108265126 The result was a victory for Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, which won 72 of the 104 seats. Background The election was held following the approval of a new constitution on 29 April 1954. The new constitution meant that assembly members were no longer elected by the tribal councils, the Assembly was enlarged, and all members were chosen by direct election from equal, single-member constituencies. It established a cabinet composed of African ministers, and only defence and foreign policy remained in the hands of the governor; the elected assembly was given control over the majority of internal affairs.The Politics of the Independence Movements https://web.archive.org/web/20080214121216/http://www.ghana.co.uk/history/history/independance.htm 2008-02-14 Ghana.co.uk Results Convention People's Party 391817 72 Northern People's Party 68709 15 Ghana Congress Party 32168 1 Togoland Congress 25214 3 Muslim Association Party 21172 1 Anlo Youth Organisation 11259 1 Independents 156401 11 0 1225603 Sternberger et al.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband, p786 Aftermath In May 1956 Nkrumah's government issued a white paper containing proposals for Gold Coast independence. The British Government stated it would agree to a firm date for independence if a reasonable majority for such a step were obtained in the Gold Coast Legislative Assembly after a general election. This election was held in July 1956, and resulted in another win for the CPP. Gold Coast became the independent nation of Ghana on 6 March 1957. See also List of MLAs elected in the 1954 Gold Coast general election References Category:Parliamentary elections in Ghana Gold Coast General Gold Coast Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results