1954 Guinea by-election

1954 Guinea by-election

← 1951 June 27, 1954 (1954-06-27) 1956 →

Constituency of Guinea
Registered466,666
Turnout55.13% (Decrease 1.82pp)
  First party Second party
 
Ind
Candidate Diawadou Barry Ahmed Sékou Touré
Party Independent PDG-RDA
Popular vote 145,497 85,808
Percentage 57.12% 33.69%

MP before election

Yacine Diallo
SFIO

Elected MP

Diawadou Barry
Independent

A by-election for one of the French National Assembly seats from Guinea was held on June 27, 1954. The socialist Yaciné Diallo, who had won one of the three Guinean seats in the 1951 French National Assembly election, died in April 1954, after which the by-election was called. The election was won by Diawadou Barry, but it also marked of the ascent of Sékou Touré's Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) in Guinean politics.[1]

  1. ^ Rivière, Claude. Guinea: The Mobilization of a People Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine