General elections were held in

British Honduras British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973,

on 20 March 1957. The ruling

People's United Party The People's United Party (PUP) is one of two major political parties in Belize. It is currently the governing party of Belize after success in the 2020 Belizean general election, winning a majority of 26 seats out of 31 in the Belizean House ...

won all nine seats contested.General Elections 1957
, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (Retrieved 19 November 2014) This was the first of two occasions they would sweep the House. It was the PUP's first election under the leadership of

George Cadle Price George Cadle Price, (15 January 191919 September 2011), was a Belizean statesman who served twice as the head of government of Belize from 1961–1984 and 1989–1993. He served as First Minister and Premier under British rule until inde ...

. Price would lead the party until 1996. The

Honduran Independence Party The Honduran Independence Party was a short-lived 1950s political party in Belize. It was essentially a splinter group of the People's United Party (PUP). Background: Central Committee resignations A convention held by the People's United Party ...

(HIP), a forerunner of the modern United Democratic Party, was founded the previous year by an anti-Price faction within the PUP led by former PUP leader

Leigh Richardson Leigh Richardson (26 April 1924 – 27 October 2008) was a Honduran-born Belizean politician. Richardson served as the leader of the People's United Party in the 1950s, and also as mayor of Belize City. Early life Richardson was born to Belizea ...

. The party fielded five out of a possible nine candidates, but failed to win any seats. The elections were the last for the pro-colonial National Party.

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, the NP's only successful candidate in the 1954 election, ran as an

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. The HIP and NP merged in 1958 to form the National Independence Party.

Results

By division

References

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