The following elections occurred in the year 1955.

Africa

* 1955 Liberian general election * 1955 South-West African legislative election

Asia

1955 Cambodian parliamentary election General elections were held in Cambodia on 9 June 1955. The elections were held following the peace established at the 1954 Geneva Conference and the independence of the country. The election were postponed to September 1955.Ben Kiernan. ''How Pol ...

* 1955 Indonesian Constituent Assembly election *

1955 Indonesian legislative election Legislative elections were held in Indonesia on 29 September 1955, to elect the 257 members of the People's Representative Council, the country's national legislature. The elections were the first national election held since the end of the In ...

1955 Israeli legislative election Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijia ...

1955 Japanese general election General elections were held in Japan on 27 February 1955. The result was a victory for the Japan Democratic Party, which won 185 of the 467 seats.Nohlen D, Grotz F, & Hartmann C (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II'', p381 Vot ...

1955 Malayan general election General elections were held in the Federation of Malaya on Wednesday, 27 July 1955, the only general election before independence in 1957. They were held to elect members of the Federal Legislative Council, whose members had previously been f ...

1955 Philippine Senate election A senatorial election in the Philippines was held on November 8, 1955. This was a midterm election, the date when the winners took office falling halfway through President Ramon Magsaysay's four-year term. Summary Since Magsaysay was very popula ...

1955 Singaporean general election General elections were held in Singapore on 2 April 1955 to elect members to the 25 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly. Nomination day was on 28 February 1955. Background Following the promulgation of the Rendel Constitution, the 1955 e ...

* 1955 Soviet Union regional elections *

1955 State of Vietnam referendum The 1955 State of Vietnam referendum determined the future form of government of the State of Vietnam, the nation that was to become the Republic of Vietnam (widely known as South Vietnam). It was contested by Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm, ...

Europe

1955 Maltese general election General elections were held in Malta between 26 and 28 February 1955. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1302 The Malta Labour Party remained the largest party, winning 23 of the 40 seats. Electoral ...

* 1955 Soviet Union regional elections * 1955 Norwegian local elections * 1955 Swedish driving side referendum

Germany

* 1955 Rhineland-Palatinate state election

United Kingdom

1955 United Kingdom general election The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election in 1951. It was a snap election: after Winston Churchill retired in April 1955, Anthony Eden took over and immediately c ...

1955 Labour Party leadership election The 1955 Labour Party leadership election was held following the resignation of Clement Attlee. Attlee was Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951 and stayed on as party leader until he lost the 1955 general election. Candidates Despite his advanc ...

List of MPs elected in the 1955 United Kingdom general election This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1955 general election, held on 26 May 1955. A total of 630 MPs were elected. Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included William Whitelaw ...

* 1955 Mid Ulster by-election * 1955 South Norfolk by-election * 1955 Orpington by-election * 1955 Twickenham by-election *

1955 Wrexham by-election The 1955 Wrexham by-election was a by-election held on 17 March 1955 for the British House of Commons constituency of Wrexham in Denbighshire, Wales. The by-election was caused by the death of the town's Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) ...

North America

Canada

1955 Alberta general election The 1955 Alberta general election was held on June 29, 1955, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Despite losing almost 10% of the popular vote (compared to its 1952 proportion of the vote) and 30% of its seats in the legislat ...

* 1955 Edmonton municipal election *

1955 Ontario general election The 1955 Ontario general election was held on June 9, 1955, to elect the 98 members of the 25th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party ...

* 1955 Prince Edward Island general election *

1955 Toronto municipal election Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on December 5, 1955. Incumbent mayor Nathan Phillips, elected a year earlier, was easily reelected, defeating Controller Roy E. Belyea and Trotskyist Ross Dowson."Phillips, Belyea, Dowso ...

* 1955 Yukon general election

Mexico

* 1955 Mexican legislative election

Australia

1955 Australian federal election The 1955 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 10 December 1955. All 122 seats in the House of Representatives and 30 of the 60 seats in the Senate were up for election. An early election was called to bring the House and Senate el ...

* 1955 Tasmanian state election

South America

* 1955 Brazilian presidential election * 1955 Guatemalan parliamentary election