1947 Gambian parliamentary election information

Parliamentary elections were held in the Gambia in 1947 to elect the one elected member of the Legislative Council. It was the first time that the Council...

Parliamentary elections were held in the Gambia in 1951. They were the first election to feature political parties, as the Democratic Party and the Muslim...

British and Gambian governments in July 1964, The Gambia became independent on 18 February 1965. British West Africa History of the Gambia "Hansard HC...

Council election, 1946−47 Gambian legislative election Guinean General Council election, 1946−47 1946–47 Ivorian General Council election 1946–1947 Moyen-Congo...

dominated Gambian politics. the Gambia left the Commonwealth of Nations in 2013 and suffered an unsuccessful coup attempt in 2014. In the 2016 election, Adama...

Fabakary Tombong Jatta (born 16 November 1947) is a Gambian politician who has served as Speaker of the National Assembly since 2022 and the leader of...

First Lady". WhatsOn-Gambia.com. Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15. Hassoum Ceesay (2007), Gambian women : an introductory...

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the Second MacDonald ministry, then after losing his parliamentary seat in the 1931 general election, he became Leader of the London County Council in the...

greatly from country to country, and depends on whether a country has a parliamentary or a presidential system. Members of a House of Representatives are...

1946 elections, Dahomey had become a single-member seat. A General Council was established in the same period and was first elected in January 1947. The...

December 1946 and January 1947. In 1948 Niger was given a second seat in the French National Assembly, which was filled in a by-election in June that year, with...

Pakistan celebrates 14 August 1947 as its independence day, independence was officially granted at midnight, 15 August 1947. Therefore, its date of joining...

public election. In Estonia, any citizen 18 years of age or older can be elected in local elections, and 21 years or older in parliamentary elections. The...

transition to parliamentary rule. After the 1991 general election, the twelfth amendment to the constitution restored the parliamentary republic, and...

in the Gambia from the establishment of a British settlement on St Mary's Island, now known as Banjul Island, in 1816, through to the Gambia Colony and...

of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems a prime minister is...

governor-general, each respective country being a parliamentary republic. In others, such as Gambia, Ghana, and Malawi, the presidency was an executive...

elements, became the biggest parliamentary party at the latest election. It won a parliamentary majority in the 1990 election but the result was not recognised...

presidential election over the candidate of the ruling coalition, becoming the youngest president in Senegal’s history. Senegal portal Gambia portal History...

Smith, Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (22 January 2013). "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 22 Jan 2013 (pt 0001)". Parliamentary Debates...

population of 10,000 were qualified in Calabar. Though elections took place in 1923, 1928, 1933, 1938, 1947, 1954, and 1959, under British colonial rule, suffrage...

about by the coronavirus pandemic. Parliamentary elections took place on 11 July 2021. The snap parliamentary elections resulted in a landslide win for the...

Labour Party in 1947 and had a career in the Union of Post Office Workers, on which he served on the Executive. At the 1959 general election, Dobson fought...

Malaya. In July 1947, separate Executive and Legislative Councils were established and provisions were made to allow for the election of six members of...