1946 Gold Coast general election information

General elections were held in the Gold Coast in June 1946. Constitutional amendments on 29 March 1946 enabled the colony to be the first in Africa to...

Cape Coast and Sekondi. The 1951 election was the first in Africa to be held under universal suffrage. In the 1927 Gold Coast general election, four...

formed in 1949 and led by Kwame Nkrumah won the election. Another party called the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) led by J.B. Danquah fared poorly...

There was also a Pepper Coast, also known as the "Grain Coast" (present-day Liberia), a "Gold Coast" (Ghana), and a "Slave Coast" (Togo, Benin and Nigeria)...

French. The French established a mission in 1687 at Assinie, near the Gold Coast (now Ghana) border, and it became the first European outpost in that area...

General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994. The elections were the first in which citizens of all races were allowed to...

between September 1945 and March 1946, during which it also served as the headquarters of the British governor-general for Southeast Asia. However, much...

about only with the postwar election of a British Labour Party government. The new Gold Coast constitution of March 29, 1946, was a bold document. For the...

1946 Italian institutional referendum: Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a republic. In the simultaneous 1946 Italian general election...

An interim ATSB report into the 2023 Sea World helicopter crash on the Gold Coast reveals a toxicology report for the pilot killed in the crash returned...

independent Gold Coast should be governed, and in June 1956, the Colonial Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd announced that there would be another general election in...

al. 154 F.2d 460 (5th Cir. 1946), which held that African-Americans could not be barred from voting in primary elections in Georgia. At the time, the...

Picton. 1946 Family benefit of £1 per week becomes universal. Bank of New Zealand nationalised. 24 November: 1946 New Zealand general election. 20 August:...

until 12 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946. This resulted...

Randgold Resources; Rhodes's Consolidated Gold Fields became Gold Fields Limited; George and Leopold Albu's General Mining and Finance Corporation became...

National Liberation Movement. In the 1956 Gold Coast general election, Ntoso was elected to the Gold Coast Legislative Assembly, representing the Atebubu...

Presidential Election, allowing the KPU to declare the Prabowo-Gibran tandem the winner. 28 April – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off the coast of West...

candidates for office. In 1998, Mitchum was the Republican nominee in the general election for the California State Assembly in the 35th district, which included...

sentenced to one year imprisonment during this time. In the Gold Coast's 1951 general election, he was elected to Parliament and was released from prison...

Campaign Medal Army Occupation Medal After his discharge, Brand worked on a 1946 Army Signal Corps film with Charlton Heston and next settled in Greenwich...

proportional system in 1996, when a large number of general electorate seats were changed as well. The gold mining electorates were created to represent the...

General elections were held in South Africa on 26 May 1948. They represented a turning point in the country's history, as despite receiving just under...

multiparty election in more than 40 years, to take place on June 15. Voting for the Congress of Deputies and the Senate in the Cortes Generales would have...

he would ask for new elections for July 8. Governor-General Jules Leger dissolved the House the next day and scheduled elections. Elie Wiesel's play Zalmen...