1956 Gold Coast general election

1956 Gold Coast general election

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All 104 seats in the Legislative Assembly 53 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   NPP NLM Leader Kwame Nkrumah Simon Diedong Dombo J. B. Danquah Party CPP NPP NLM Last election 72 seats 15 seats – Seats won 71 15 12 Seat change 1 12 Popular vote 391,817 68,709 145,657 Percentage 57.10% 10.39% 20.89%

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General elections were held in the Gold Coast (soon to become Ghana) on 17 July 1956. The result was a victory for Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, which won 71 of the 104 seats.^[1]

A new constitution, approved on 29 April 1954, established a cabinet composed of African ministers drawn from an all-African legislature chosen by direct election. In the elections that followed, the Convention People's Party won the majority of seats in the new Legislative Assembly.