1956 South Vietnamese Constitutional Assembly election information
President Ngo Dinh Diem casting his vote (4 March 1956)
Constitutional Assembly elections were held in South Vietnam on 4 March 1956.[1] A total of 431 candidates contested the 123 seats from all five registered pro-government political parties, with 11 elected as pro-government independents. Edward Miller notes that the election was relatively free and fair in comparison to 1955 State of Vietnam referendum, as independent and opposition candidates were allowed to contest the seats, and opposition campaigns were allowed. However, campaign materials had to be screened, and the government was allowed to suspend candidates on the basis of their links with Viet Minh and other rebel groups.[2] Two deputies were not permitted to take seats due to electoral violations, making the total number of deputies seated at 121.[3] On 26 October the body was transformed into the National Assembly after the new constitution came into effect.[3]
^Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p331 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
^Miller, Edward (2013). Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam. Boston: Harvard University Press. pp. 144–145. ISBN 978-0-674-07298-5.
^ abNohlen et al., p334
and 22 Related for: 1956 South Vietnamese Constitutional Assembly election information
ConstitutionalAssemblyelections were held in South Vietnam on 4 March 1956. A total of 431 candidates contested the 123 seats from all five registered...
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, French: République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast...
The National Assembly of the Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Quốc-hội Việt-Nam Cộng-hòa) was the national legislature of the Republic of Vietnam. The...
country, pending national elections that were intended to reunify the country under a common government. Still, the Vietnamese National Army was not in...
North rejected this proposition, a general election for a ConstitutionalAssembly took place in the South only, in May 1948. A constitution was adopted...
The Vietnamese Constitution or the Constitution of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Hiến pháp Việt Nam), fully the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam...
chairman of the conference, provided that a general election be held by July 1956 to create a unified Vietnamese state. Despite helping create some of the agreements...
The 1959 SouthVietnamese legislative election chose the members of South Vietnam's National Assembly to serve three-year terms. The election was comfortably...
/ˈjiːəm/ YEE-əm or /ziːm/ zeem; Vietnamese: [ŋō ɗìn jîəmˀ] ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a SouthVietnamese politician who was the final prime...
legislature. However, these constitutional measures did not work. In January 1947, after his election by the National Assembly and the nomination of his...
Germany in 1973.[citation needed] Notes On 30 April 1975 South Vietnam was taken over by North Vietnamese forces and on 2 July 1976 it united with North Vietnam...
Rouge and its Vietnamese Marxist allies were becoming strained and some violent clashes had broken out. That year, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong main-force...
outside the North Vietnamese and Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam embassies, as protesters demanded Viet Cong troops withdraw...
abdicated under the pressure of the Việt Minh led by Ho Chi Minh. This marked the end of the Nguyễn dynasty and the Vietnamese monarchy. From 1949 to 1955, Bảo...
than on confronting the Viet Cong (VC), a Marxist–Leninist guerilla army who were threatening to overthrow the SouthVietnamese government. Cử and Quốc...
southeast Laos paralleling the Vietnamese border. The trail was designed to transport North Vietnamese troops and supplies to South Vietnam, as well as to aid...
reports on the SouthVietnamese leader. Diệm was trumpeted as a champion of democracy, and mentions of his autocratic style and election rigging were avoided...
office for another term. Fulton went on to win the next State Senate election in 1956 and was later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives where he...
fraud charges, manipulated the certification of election results by the SouthVietnamese National Assembly, and instituted the Phoenix Program. It worked...
demanded that the Vietnamese communists leave Cambodia, gained the political support of the United States. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, desperate...
of the Constitutional Court of Croatia Miroslav Šeparović warned that this situation may jeopardize constitutionality of the following elections in Croatia...
Struggle overthrew military dictatorship of South Korea. The rigged 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assemblyelection created a catalyst for the insurgency...
Global Information