General elections were held in the Gold Coast on 8 February 1951. Although elections had been held for the Legislative Council since 1925,[1] the Council did not have complete control over the legislation, and the voting franchise was limited to residents of urban areas meeting property requirements and the councils of chiefs.[2] The 1951 elections were the first in Africa to be held under universal suffrage.[3]
^Timeline: Ghana BBC News, 23 October 2007
^Dunlop Roberts, A. (1986) The Cambridge History of Africa
^Brown, J.M. & Roger Louis, W.M. (1999) The Oxford History of the British Empire
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