Elections to the

French National Assembly The National Assembly (french: link=no, italics=set, Assemblée nationale; ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known a ...

were held in

Upper Volta Upper Volta (now named Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to ...

on 2 January 1956 as part of the wider French elections. The results saw Gérard Kango Ouédraogo ( Progressive Voltaic), Nazi Boni (

African Popular Movement The African Popular Movement (in French: ''Mouvement Populaire Africain'') was a political party in Upper Volta, led by Nazi Boni. MPA was founded in 1955 following a split in the Voltaic Union. In the 1957 Territorial Assembly elections MPA wo ...

),Nazi Boni
French National Assembly

Joseph Conombo Joseph Issoufou Conombo (9 February 1917 – 20 December 2008) served as Prime Minister of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 7 July 1978 to 25 November 1980. Born in the department of Kombissiri, he attended medical school in Dakar, Seneg ...

and

Henri Guissou Henri Guissou (17 November 1910, Koudougou, French Upper Volta – 22 May 1979, Koudougou) was a Burkinabé politician and diplomat. Henri Guissou was senator from Côte d'Ivoire from 1947 to 1948, and member for French Upper Volta to the Nationa ...

(

Social Party for the Emancipation of the African Masses Social Party for the Emancipation of the African Masses (in French: ''Parti Social pour l'Émancipation des Masses Africaines'') was a political party in Upper Volta, led by Joseph Conombo and Henri Guissou. PSEMA was founded in 1955 following a ...

) elected.

Results

References

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French elections in Upper Volta