1957 British Honduras general election
General elections were held in British Honduras on 20 March 1957. The ruling People's United Party won all nine seats contested.[1] This was the first of two occasions they would sweep the House. It was the PUP's first election under the leadership of George Cadle Price. Price would lead the party until 1996.
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| Turnout | 52.74% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Honduran Independence Party (HIP), a forerunner of the modern United Democratic Party, was founded the previous year by an anti-Price faction within the PUP led by former PUP leader Leigh Richardson. The party fielded five out of a possible nine candidates, but failed to win any seats.[1]
The elections were the last for the pro-colonial National Party. Charles Westby, the NP's only successful candidate in the 1954 election, ran as an independent.[1] The HIP and NP merged in 1958 to form the National Independence Party.
Results
edit| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's United Party | 6,876 | 61.32 | 9 | +1 | |
| Honduran Independence Party | 2,057 | 18.34 | 0 | New | |
| National Party | 1,449 | 12.92 | 0 | –1 | |
| Independents | 832 | 7.42 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 11,214 | 100.00 | 9 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 11,214 | 96.39 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 420 | 3.61 | |||
| Total votes | 11,634 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 22,058 | 52.74 | |||
| Source: Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission | |||||
By division
edit| Division | Electorate | Turnout | % | Political party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Belize North | 3,490 | 1,901 | 54.5 | People's United Party | George Cadle Price | 70.2 | ||
| National Party | Jaime Staines | 28.4 | ||||||
| Belize Rural | 2,383 | 1,013 | 42.5 | People's United Party | Louis Sylvestre | 68.2 | ||
| Honduran Independence Party | Herman Jex | 19.2 | ||||||
| National Party | Lindsay Burns | 10.8 | ||||||
| Belize South | 2,767 | 1,648 | 59.6 | People's United Party | Denbigh Jeffery | 38.7 | ||
| Honduran Independence Party | Philip Goldson | 38.6 | ||||||
| National Party | Herbert Fuller | 21.5 | ||||||
| Belize West | 3,665 | 1,977 | 53.9 | People's United Party | Albert Cattouse | 57.4 | ||
| Honduran Independence Party | Leigh Richardson | 26.7 | ||||||
| National Party | Lionel Francis | 14.3 | ||||||
| Cayo | 2,019 | 1,044 | 51.7 | People's United Party | Enrique De Paz | 50.1 | ||
| Honduran Independence Party | Eduardo Espat | 21.6 | ||||||
| National Party | Hamid Musa | 6.7 | ||||||
| Corozal | 1,578 | 1,001 | 63.4 | People's United Party | Santiago Ricalde | 82.3 | ||
| Honduran Independence Party | Jose Leon Chin | 15.3 | ||||||
| Orange Walk | 1,436 | 800 | 55.7 | People's United Party | Victor Orellana | 64.8 | ||
| National Party | William George | 23.6 | ||||||
| Honduran Independence Party | George Flowers | 7.9 | ||||||
| Stann Creek | 3,349 | 1,611 | 48.1 | People's United Party | David McKoy | 57.0 | ||
| Independent | Harry Stanely | 14.7 | ||||||
| Independent | Lem Benguche | 13.5 | ||||||
| Independent | Max Arzu | 13.1 | ||||||
| Toledo | 1,371 | 639 | 46.6 | People's United Party | Faustino Zuniga | 46.2 | ||
| National Party | Bernard Avilez | 26.0 | ||||||
| Independent | Charles Westby | 25.4 | ||||||
References
edit- ^ a b c General Elections 1957 Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (Retrieved 19 November 2014)