Legislative elections were held in

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on 3 November 1957 for the

Territorial Assembly A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or an ...

.La chronologie
Assembly of French Polynesia The result was a victory for the ruling

Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People The Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People (french: Rassemblement démocratique des populations tahitiennes, abbreviated RDPT) was a political party in French Oceania/French Polynesia. The party was led by Pouvanaa a Oopa. Political profile Pouv ...

(RDPT) led by

Pouvanaa a Oopa Pouvana'a a O'opa (May 10, 1895 – January 10, 1977) was a Tahitian politician and advocate for French Polynesian independence. He is viewed as the ''metua'' (father) of French Polynesia's independence movement. Pouvanaa served as a Deputy ...

,Leftist Party Takes Over in French Polynesia
''Pacific Islands Monthly'', April 1958, p21 which won 17 of the 30 seats.

Results

Elected members

Aftermath

Following the elections, Jean-Baptiste Céran-Jérusalémy was elected President of the Assembly on 10 December. A new government was formed later in the month, including Walter Grand who had lost heavily in the Windward Islands constituency running on the France Tahiti list. However, following protests about an income tax law, the government was sacked by Governor Camille Victor Bailly in April 1958. Bailly subsequently appointed a new government led by

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. Following the death of Tautu Oopa in 1961, his wife

Céline Céline, sometimes spelled Celine, is a French female first name of Latin origin, coming from ''Caelīna'', the feminine form of the Roman cognomen ''Caelīnus'', meaning "heavenly".

won a by-election on 8 October 1961, becoming the first woman to sit in the Assembly.Les élus de l’assemblée territoriale
Assembly of French Polynesia

References

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