1960 Ivorian general election

none Ivory Coast 27 November 1960 yes presidential Presidential election 1965 Ivorian general election 1965 Félix Houphouët-Boigny Félix Houphouët-Boigny 1962-07-16 (cropped).jpg Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally 1,641,352 100% yes 1959 1965 Parliamentary election 95.87% yes All 70 seats in the National Assembly 36 Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally 100 70 100 General elections were held in Ivory Coast on 27 November 1960 to elect a President and National Assembly. Under the constitution enacted that year, the country was officially a one-party state with the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA) as the sole legal party. Its leader, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, was automatically elected to a five-year term as president and unanimously confirmed in office via a referendum. A single list of PDCI-RDA candidates won all 70 seats in the National Assembly.Elections in Côte d'Ivoire https://web.archive.org/web/20110514094239/http://africanelections.tripod.com/ci.html 2011-05-14 African Elections Database Voter turnout was 95.9% in the parliamentary election and 98.8% in the presidential election.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, pp308-310 0-19-829645-2 Results President Félix Houphouët-Boigny Democratic Party of Ivory Coast 1641352 190 1661833 Nohlen et al. National Assembly Democratic Party of Ivory Coast 1586518 70 –30 6617 –30 1661833 Nohlen et al. References Ivory General Category:Presidential elections in Ivory Coast Category:One-party elections Category:Single-candidate elections Category:Parliamentary elections in Ivory Coast Ivory