1955 French Togoland Territorial Assembly election information
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Territorial Assembly elections were held in French Togoland on 12 June 1955. The Togolese Party of Progress and the Union of Chiefs and Peoples of the North both won 15 of the 30 seats.[1] The Committee of Togolese Unity boycotted the elections.[2]
^Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p2203
^Harris M. Lentz (2014) Heads of States and Governments Since 1945, Routledge, p753
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