Territorial Assembly elections were held in

Ubangi-Shari Ubangi-Shari (french: Oubangui-Chari) was a French colony in central Africa, a part of French Equatorial Africa. It was named after the Ubangi and Chari rivers along which it was colonised. It was established on 29 December 1903, from the U ...

on 31 March 1957. The first and second college system for giving separate seats to Europeans and Africans was scrapped, and all 50 seats elected by

universal suffrage Universal suffrage (also called universal franchise, general suffrage, and common suffrage of the common man) gives the right to vote to all adult citizens, regardless of wealth, income, gender, social status, race, ethnicity, or political stan ...

.Parliament of the Central African Republic
Juan Fandos-Rius The result was a victory for the

Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa The Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa (french: Mouvement pour l'évolution sociale de l'Afrique noire; MESAN) was a political party in the Central African Republic. In its original form, it was a nationalist quasi-religious party ...

led by Barthélémy Boganda, which won all 50 seats.

Results

References

{{Central African Republic elections Ubangi Elections in the Central African Republic 1957 in Ubangi-Shari Election and referendum articles with incomplete results