1957 Dahomeyan Territorial Assembly election information

Elections to the Territorial Assembly were held in French Dahomey on 31 March 1957. The result was a victory for the Republican Party of Dahomey, which...

result was a victory for the Dahomeyan Progressive Union, which won 20 of the 30 elected seats. French National Assembly elections were held again in 1951...

Dahomeyan Democratic Movement. Maga was re-elected to the French National Assembly in 1956. The MDD was reduced to six seats in the 1957 Territorial Assembly...

Indépendents du Nord during his long political career. In the 1957 Dahomeyan Territorial Assembly election, he narrowly won the district of Djougou and gained himself...

any other party, it won just 11 of the 70 seats in the Territorial Assembly, whilst the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (RDD) won 22 seats with 17% of the vote...

Group of the North (later the Dahomeyan Democratic Movement), which merged into the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally in 1957, received little support outside...

the Dahomey territorial assembly from 1952 to 1957. When Hubert Maga was deposed in 1963, Congacou was elected head of the National Assembly, as well as...

1956 elections to the French National Assembly, but received only 1.7% of the vote. Darboux won the Djougou seat in the March 1957 Territorial Assembly elections...

the Assembly. The PRD went on to win the 1957 Territorial Assembly elections, taking 35 of the 60 seats. In 1958 the party merged with the Dahomeyan Democratic...

Vonckists. October 28, 1963: Christophe Soglo overthrew Hubert Maga and the Dahomeyan Unity Party November 27, 1965: Christophe Soglo overthrew Sourou-Migan...

by four in the afternoon, he would begin firing on the building". The Dahomeyan army's lone heavy weapon was a mortar, and General Soglo "was the only...