General elections were held in Tunisia in November 1964 to elect a President and

Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon R ...

. A year earlier, the country had been formally declared a one-party state with the Socialist Destourian Party (PSD, formerly the

Neo Destour The New Constitutional Liberal Party ( ar, الحزب الحر الدستوري الجديد, '; French: ''Nouveau Parti libéral constitutionnel''), most commonly known as Neo Destour, was a Tunisian political party founded in 1934 by a group o ...

) as the sole legal party. However, the country had effectively been a one-party state since independence in 1956. In the presidential election, incumbent

Habib Bourguiba Habib Bourguiba (; ar, الحبيب بورقيبة, al-Ḥabīb Būrqībah; 3 August 19036 April 2000) was a Tunisian lawyer, nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1957 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of T ...

was re-elected unopposed; as the chairman of the PSD, he was the only candidate for president. In the Chamber election, voters were presented with a single list from the PSD, which won all 90 seats. Voter turnout was 96.8%.

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, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p918

Results

President

Chamber of Deputies

References

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