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1955 Election
The following elections occurred in the year 1955. Africa * 1955 Liberian general election * 1955 South-West African legislative election Asia * 1955 Cambodian parliamentary election * 1955 Indonesian Constituent Assembly election * 1955 Indonesian legislative election * 1955 Israeli legislative election * 1955 Japanese general election * 1955 Malayan general election * 1955 Philippine Senate election * 1955 Singaporean general election * 1955 Soviet Union regional elections * 1955 State of Vietnam referendum Europe * 1955 Maltese general election * 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 * 1955 Labour Party leadership election * List of MPs elected in the 1955 United Kingdom general election * 1955 Mid Ulster by-election * 1955 South Norfolk by-election * 1955 Orpington by-election * 1955 Twicke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Liberian General Election
General elections were held in Liberia in May 1955. For the first time since 1931 there was more than one candidate in the presidential election. However, William Tubman of the True Whig Party was easily re-elected, winning over 99.5% of the vote.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p517 Results References {{Liberian elections Liberia General Elections in Liberia Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ... Election and referendum articles with incomplete results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 advancing age and Labour's loss of the 1951 general election, Labour Party Leader Clement Attlee delayed his retirement from politics in order to keep the Labour Party united during its fracture between Gaitskellite and Bevanite factions. He also did not want Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison to assume full Leadership. Beginning with the retirement of Hugh Dalton after the 1951 election most senior members of the Labour Party aside from Morrison resigned from the government, leaving the leadership open to a new generation of the party when Attlee finally resigned due to Labour's loss of the 1955 election. Morrison was once considered the heir apparent to Attlee, but by the early 1950s was widely distrusted and was considered to be too old for the j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Mexican Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in Mexico on 4 July 1955.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p453 The Institutional Revolutionary Party won 153 of the 162 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.Nohlen, p468 Results References Mexico Legislative A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers of government. Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known as p ... Legislative elections in Mexico Election and referendum articles with incomplete results July 1955 events in Mexico {{Mexico-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Yukon General Election
The 1955 Yukon general election was held on 28 September 1955 to elect the five members of the Yukon Territorial Council.Steven Smyth, ''The Yukon's Constitutional Foundations: Volume One, The Yukon Chronology (1897-1999)''. Clairedge Press, 1999. The council was non-partisan and had merely an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner. Members elected References 1955 1955 elections in Canada Election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ... September 1955 events in Canada {{Canada-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Dowson in Race: Three Seek Mavor's Chair", ''The Globe and Mail'' (1936-2016); Toronto, Ont. oronto, Ont3 Dec 1955: 13. Two referendums were held with the elections. One, which passed, was to extend the municipal term to two years. Previously elections had been held every year. There was also a vote on funding a new Toronto City Hall, which was rejected by voters. Toronto mayor Nathan Phillips was opposed for reelection after his first year in office by Board of Control member Roy E. Belyea, who had been a staunch opponent of Phillips during the year. Also running was Trotskyist Ross Dowson. ;Results : Nathan Phillips - 70,647 : Roy E. Belyea - 26,717 : Ross Dowson - 2,374 Plebiscites Two questions appeared on the ballot. The first was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Prince Edward Island General Election
The 1955 Prince Edward Island general election was held in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island on May 25, 1955. The governing Liberals of Premier Alex W. Matheson increased their majority in the Legislature, winning three more seats over the opposition Progressive Conservatives led by Reginald Bell, who would resign as leader in 1957 following this election. Matheson took over as premier from his predecessor J. Walter Jones in May 1953 following his appointment to the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the e .... This election marked the first and only time (as of 2016) that a party has won six consecutive general elections on Prince Edward Island. Party Standings Members Elected The Legislature of Prince Edward Island had two levels of membership ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, led by Leslie Frost, won a fifth consecutive term in office, increasing its caucus in the legislature from 79 in the previous election to 83. The Ontario Liberal Party, again led by Farquhar Oliver, won three additional seats in the enlarged legislature, increasing its caucus from 8 to 11, and continuing in the role of official opposition. Liberal-Labour MPP Albert Wren was re-elected and continued to sit with the Liberal caucus. The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), led by Donald C. MacDonald, won one additional seat, for a total of three. The Labor-Progressive Party (which was the Communist Party) lost its last remaining seat with the defeat of J.B. Salsberg. One "PC Independent" was elected. Expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Edmonton Municipal Election
The 1955 municipal election was held October 19, 1955, to elect five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and six trustees to sit on the public school board, while the mayor and four trustees for the separate school board were acclaimed. The electorate also decided ten plebiscite questions. There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: Edwin Clarke, Frederick John Mitchell, Ethel Wilson, Laurette Douglas, and Giffard Main (SS) were all elected to two-year terms in 1954 and were still in office. There were seven trustees on the public school board, but one of the positions were already filled, as Donald Bowen was elected to a two-year term in 1954 and was still in office. William Roberts and Rex Stevenson had also been elected to two-year terms in 1954, but had resigned; accordingly, John Thorogood (SS) and Herbert Turner were elected to one-year terms. On the separate board, there were four vacancies, as James O'Hara, Adrian Crowe (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 legislature, the Social Credit Party, led by Ernest C. Manning, received a slightly higher number of votes than in 1952 and won a comfortable majority for its sixth term in government. The Liberal Party emerged as the principal opposition to the Social Credit juggernaut, winning over 30% of the popular vote, and increasing its legislative caucus from 4 members to 15. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation won two seats. However its leader, MLA Elmer Roper, was defeated, ending his thirteen-year career in the legislature. Three Conservative Party candidates and various independents also won seats. This provincial election, like the previous seven, saw district-level proportional representation ( Single transferable voting) used to elect the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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) Robert Richards, who had held the seat since the 1935 general election. The result was a victory for the Labour candidate James Idwal Jones, who held the seat with a majority of nearly 11,000 votes. Result See also * List of United Kingdom by-elections * Wrexham constituency Wrexham (Welsh: ''Wrecsam'') is a parliamentary constituency centred on the city of Wrexham in the preserved county of Clwyd, Wales in the United Kingdom. It was created in 1918, and is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parli ... Sources * References External links British parliamentary by-elections: Wrexham 1955 A Vision Of Britain Through Time(Constituency elector numbers) {{DEFAULTSORT:Wrexham By-Election, 1955 By-ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Twickenham By-election
The 1955 Twickenham by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 25 January 1955 for the British House of Commons constituency of Twickenham in Middlesex. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Edward Keeling, had died on 23 November 1954. He had held the seat since the 1935 general election. The result was a comfortable victory for the Conservative candidate Gresham Cooke, a director of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. He held the seat until his death shortly before the 1970 general election. Results See also * Twickenham constituency * Twickenham * 1929 Twickenham by-election * 1932 Twickenham by-election * 1934 Twickenham by-election * Lists of United Kingdom by-elections The list of by-elections in the United Kingdom is divided chronologically by parliament: Parliament of the United Kingdom *List of United Kingdom by-elections (1801–1806) *List of United Kingdom by-electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Orpington By-election
The 1955 Orpington by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 20 January 1955 for the British House of Commons constituency of Orpington in Kent, England. It followed the death of the incumbent Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Waldron Smithers. The seat was held by the Conservatives. The by-election was notable in that Sumner as the incumbent chairman of the divisional Conservative Association defeated Margaret Thatcher to be adopted prospective candidate for the local constituency. The Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. __TOC__ Active liberal parties This is a l ... announced that it would not contest the by-election.The Times, ''Orpington Polling Day 20 January'' 5 Jan 1955 Result References {{By-elections to the 40th UK Parliament Orpington by-election Orping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
