1959 Senegalese parliamentary election information

Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 22 March 1959. The result was a victory for the Senegalese Progressive Union, which won all 80 seats. Voter...

elections that occurred in the year 1959. 1959 Mauritanian parliamentary election 1959 Nigerian parliamentary election 1959 Senegalese parliamentary election...

Senegalese presidential election; he took third place with 13.56% of the vote. He was also the candidate in the 2012 Senegalese presidential election...

seats, in line with the requirement of the 2010 gender parity law on Senegalese elections. List of political parties in Senegal "Concern at Senegal term extension"...

been directly elected. However, incumbent Léopold Sédar Senghor of the Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS) was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed...

August 1959) is a Senegalese politician who was Prime Minister of Senegal from November 2002 to July 2004. He was a leading member of the Senegalese Democratic...

the Senegalese Popular Bloc (BPS) in 1956. The rest of MPS finally merged with the Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS, follow-up of BPS) in 1959. v t e...

Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne (22 September 1959 – 5 April 2024) was a Senegalese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Senegal from 2014 to...

election in 1983 against Diouf, but lost. Senghor moved to France, where he died at the age of 95. In the 1980s, Boubacar Lam discovered Senegalese oral...

to her committee assignments, Corneloup is part of the French-Senegalese Parliamentary Friendship Group. According to Le Monde, Corneloup was one of the...

Senegalese Solidarity Party (in French: Parti de la Solidarité Sénégalaise) was a political party in Senegal. PSS was created in January 1959. It was...

Amath Dansokho (January 13, 1937 – August 23, 2019) was a Senegalese politician. He was Secretary-General of the Party of Independence and Work (PIT) for...

multi-party elections in 1994, it was removed from power in the 1999–2000 elections. However, it returned to office after winning parliamentary elections in 2004...

gained full voting rights in 1916 after the election of Blaise Diagne. Lamine Guèye (another Senegalese politician) also achieved expanded voting rights...

Moorish Mauritanian herders and Senegalese farmers over grazing rights. On 9 April 1989, Mauritanian guards killed two Senegalese. Following the incident, several...

(2001–2004), former Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Çiller (1993–1996), former Senegalese Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye (2001–2002), Bangladeshi Prime Ministers...

municipal elections of November 1956. The first national contest was the 31 March 1957 election of the Territorial Assembly. In January 1959, Senegal and...

been a member state of the African Union since 1963. The present-day Senegalese president, Macky Sall, is currently serving as the African Union's chairperson...

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second round of the January–March 2011 presidential election and campaigned with him. Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade designated Oubandawaki as a...

were born in these towns was legally French. They could vote in parliamentary elections, which had been previously dominated by white and mixed-race residents...

outbreak of World War II, he was sous-lieutenant of the 12th regiment of Senegalese tirailleurs, and refused France's capitulation after the defeat. He then...