The following elections occurred in the year 1954.

Africa

* French legislative by-election, 1954 (Guinea) *

1954 Southern Rhodesian general election General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 27 January 1954 for the seats in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly. The result was a victory for the United Rhodesia Party, which won 26 of the 30 seats. The candidates of the Rhodesia ...

1954 Gambian legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in the Gambia in 1954 following constitutional amendments, which increased the number of elected members on the Legislative Council from three to four, with an additional seven non-elected members.

1954 Gold Coast legislative election General elections were held in the Gold Coast on 15 June 1954. The result was a victory for Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, which won 71 of the 104 seats. Background The election was held following the approval of a new constitution o ...

Asia

1954 Iranian legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Iran in 1954. Political parties were banned from contesting the election, and all 136 elected MPs were independents. The elections were " rigged and far from a legitimate process". Upper house elections began ...

* 1954 Taiwan presidential election *

1954 Syrian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Syria on 24 and 25 September 1954, with a second round held between 4 and 5 October. Independent candidates emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, whilst the People's Party became the largest single party ...

Europe

1954 Belgian general election General elections were held in Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, ...

1954 Finnish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 7 and 8 March 1954.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p606 Background In June 1953, Prime Minister Urho Kekkonen had presented a simultaneous deflation ...

1954 Irish general election The 1954 Irish general election was held on Tuesday, 18 May to elect the 15th Dáil. The newly-elected members assembled at Leinster House on 2 June when the new Taoiseach and government were appointed. The general election took place in 40 pa ...

* 1954 Soviet Union legislative election *

1954 Turkish general election General elections were held in Turkey on 2 May 1954. The electoral system used was the multiple non-transferable vote. The result was a landslide victory for the Democrat Party, which won 503 of the 541 seats. Voter turnout was 88.6%. Results ...

* 1954 Luxembourgian legislative election

United Kingdom

1954 Aberdare by-election The 1954 Aberdare by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 28 October 1954 for the British House of Commons constituency of Aberdare in Wales. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) David Thomas had die ...

1954 Armagh by-election The Armagh by-election was held on 20 November 1954, following the resignation of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament James Harden. Harden had held the seat of Armagh since a by-election in 1948, and had not faced a contest since then. ...

1954 Inverness by-election The 1954 Inverness by-election was a by-election held on 21 December 1954 for the British House of Commons United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of Inverness (UK Parliament constituency), Inverness. The by-election was caused by the resigna ...

North America

1954 British Honduras legislative election General elections were held in British Honduras on 28 April 1954, the first held under universal suffrage.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p100 The new constitution replaced the Legislative Council wi ...

Canada

1954 Edmonton municipal election The 1954 municipal election was held October 13, 1954 to elect five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees each to sit on the public and separate school boards. The electorate also decided seven plebiscite questions. No electi ...

1954 Northwest Territories general election The 1954 Northwest Territories general election was held on September 7, 1954. It was the only provincial / territorial election held in Canada that year. This election saw the number of elected candidates increase by one. Election summary Appo ...

1954 Ottawa municipal election The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 6, 1954. Mayor of Ottawa Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) Ottawa City Council (2 elected from each ward) References *''Ottawa Citizen, December 7, 1954'' ...

1954 Toronto municipal election Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on December 6, 1954. Incumbent mayor Leslie Saunders was defeated by Nathan Phillips in a close contest. Toronto mayor Controller Leslie Saunders had been appointed mayor after the resi ...

United States

* United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1954 *

1954 California gubernatorial election The 1954 California gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1954. Incumbent Republican governor Goodwin Knight, who had ascended to the office after Earl Warren resigned to become Chief Justice of the United States the previous year, wo ...

1954 Maine gubernatorial election The 1954 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 13, 1954. Incumbent Republican Governor Burton M. Cross was seeking a second term which would have made him the fifth consecutive Governor (all Republicans) to be elected twice. Demo ...

1954 Massachusetts gubernatorial election The 1954 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1954. Republican governor Christian Herter was re-elected, defeating Democrat Robert F. Murphy, Socialist Labor candidate Lawrence Gilfedder, and Prohibition candidate Guy S ...

1954 Minnesota gubernatorial election The 1954 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1954. Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party candidate Orville Freeman defeated Republican Party of Minnesota incumbent C. Elmer Anderson. Results See also * Lis ...

1954 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election The 1954 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 2. In what is considered a crucial realigning election for the state, Democratic State Senator George M. Leader defeated Republican incumbent Lieutenant Governor Lloyd Wood by a ...

* United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1954 *

1954 South Carolina gubernatorial election The 1954 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1954 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. George Bell Timmerman won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election becoming the 105th go ...

1954 United States House of Representatives elections The 1954 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1954 which occurred in the middle of President Dwight Eisenhower's first term. Eisenhower's Republican Party lost eightee ...

1954 United States Senate elections The 1954 United States Senate elections was a midterm election in the first term of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. Eisenhower's Republican party lost a net of two seats to the Democratic opposition. This small change was just enough to give ...

United States Senate

* United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1954 * United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1954

South America

* 1954 Argentine legislative and vice-presidential election *

1954 Brazilian legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Brazil on 3 October 1954.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p173 The Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senat ...

1954 Guatemalan general election Constituent Assembly elections were held alongside a plebiscite on the presidency of Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala on 10 October 1954. A reported 99.92% of voters voted in favour of Armas' presidency, whilst the National Anti-Communist Fro ...

1954 Honduran general election General elections were held in Honduras on 10 October 1954.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p407 The elections were relatively honest.Thomas P. Anderson (1969) ''The war of the dispossessed: Honduras ...

1954 Salvadoran legislative election Legislative elections were held in El Salvador in March 1954. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, which was the on ...

Oceania

1954 New Zealand general election The 1954 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 31st term. It saw the governing National Party remain in office, but with a slightly reduced majority. It also saw the debut of th ...

1954 Australian federal election The 1954 Australian federal election were held in Australia on 29 May 1954. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election, but no Senate election took place. The incumbent Liberal–Country coalition led by Prime Minister Ro ...