202 of the 250 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 126 seats needed for a majority
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47.8%
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147
48
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52
29
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1,170,073
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30.4
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General elections were held in Burma to vote for 202 out of 250 seats to the Burmese Chamber of Deputies; the remaining 48 members (all from the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, AFPFL) were elected unopposed as no opposition candidates stood against them.[1]
The AFPFL, a former wartime resistance organisation, won the elections with a reduced majority.[2] After the election, U Nu, leader of the AFPFL, temporarily retired to reform the party and its policies.[3]
The second part of the election to elect members to the Chamber of Nationalities took place on 22 May after the election commission stated that "rebel intimidation and the lack of security prevented the people from exercising freedom of choice".[1] Voter turnout was 47.8%.[4]
^ abSilverstein, Josef (1956). "Politics, Parties and National Elections in Burma". Far Eastern Survey. 25 (12). Institute of Pacific Relations: 177–184. doi:10.2307/3024383. JSTOR 3024383.
^Bigelow, Lee S (1960). "The 1960 Elections in Burma". Far Eastern Survey. 29 (5). Institute of Pacific Relations: 70–74. doi:10.2307/3024046. JSTOR 3024046.
^Tarling, Nicholas (2000). The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: From World War II to the Present, Volume 2, Part 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-521-66372-4.
^Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p603 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
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