1951 Sierra Leonean general election information

General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate in November 1951. The 1947 constitution expanded the Legislative Council to 35 members...

civilian rule were fulfilled by Bio. Prior to conducting the election, Sierra Leoneans and international stakeholders were involved in a major debate...

between Sierra Leone and Britain; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held...

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Augustus Strieby Margai PC (7 December 1895 – 28 April 1964) was a Sierra Leonean physician and politician who served as the country's head of government...

Major General Joseph Saidu Momoh, OOR, OBE (January 26, 1937 – August 3, 2003) was a Sierra Leonean politician and military officer who served as the...

Krio is also the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans living abroad. The Sierra Leone Creoles settled across West Africa in the nineteenth...

between Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom. Another point of contention was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held...

(April 14, 1927 – April 30, 1994) commonly known as S.I. Koroma was a Sierra Leonean politician, labor activist, and one of the founding members of the All...

July 2023, Sierra Leonean authorities detained an undetermined number of soldiers and civilians who were allegedly planning a coup in Sierra Leone between...

were known as Charles Heddle, a European African and John Ezzidio a Sierra Leonean. Both the official and unofficial members constituted the Legislative...

minister of Sierra Leone and the half-brother of Sir Milton Margai, the country's first Prime Minister. He was also the father of Sierra Leonean politician...

one-time Governor-General and Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Femi Claudius Cole (born 1962), politician of the Unity Party and first Sierra Leonean woman to form...

(1 February 1929 – 5 March 2015) was a Sierra Leonean politician and diplomat. A founding member of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), he later served...

Victor Chukuma Johnson (11 May 1944 – 15 July 2012) was a Sierra Leonean entrepreneur and politician who was the deputy leader and chairman of the All...

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Legislative Council only consisted of a small minority of high status Sierra Leoneans nominated by the government. The goal of this institutional change...

August 1945) is a Sierra Leonean politician and constitutional lawyer who served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Sierra Leone in 2018. Margai...

appointed all leaders of Colonial Sierra Leone until 1953; the 1962 Sierra Leonean general election was the country's first election with universal suffrage. The...

exploitation of Sierra Leone's diamonds, demanding a Royal Commission of Enquiry into serious riots in the Kono District. In the pre-elections of 1957, SLIM...

Sierra Leone and Guinea were supporting the LURD, while Taylor was supporting opposition factions in both countries. By supporting Sierra Leonean rebels...

conditions in the diamond fields eventually gave way to the rise of a Sierra Leonean branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Led by Bright Chikezi...

Pérez, in February and November; the first led by Hugo Chávez. 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état: A group of young military officers, led by Captain Valentine...

Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon: A Sierra Leonean Medical Officer in the First World War", The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies, Autumn 2014, p. 4, note...

British protectorate since 1888, declined to join the union. In the 1951 general election, the Conservative Party returned to power in Britain under the leadership...