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1951 Gambian parliamentary election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2023
Entity authorityQ2053360 ↗
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Gambia in 1951. They were the first election to feature political parties, as the Democratic Party and the Muslim Congress Party had been founded earlier in the year.

Results

There were only three elected seats in the Legislative Council at the time.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gambian, parliamentary and election is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1951 Gambian parliamentary election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.