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    Parliamentary elections were held in Southern Cameroons on 24 January 1959. The result was a victory for the Kamerun National Democratic Party, which won...
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    Parliamentary elections were held in Southern Cameroons on 30 December 1961. The result was a victory for the Kamerun National Democratic Party, which...
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    Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 12 December 1959. The result was a victory for the Northern People's Congress, which won 134 of the 312...
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  • Cameroons and Southern Cameroons. Northern Cameroons consisted of two non-contiguous sections, divided by a point where the Nigerian and Cameroon borders met...
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  • Thumbnail for Socialist Party of Cameroon
    formed the Group of Cameroonian Progressives to contest the 1960 parliamentary elections. The alliance received 4.5% of the vote, winning seven seats. The...
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    defeated in elections on 1 February 1959 by John Ngu Foncha. Southern Cameroons federated with Cameroon on 1 October 1961 as "West Cameroon", with its...
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    Kamerun National Congress (category Defunct political parties in Cameroon)
    The Kamerun National Congress (KNC) was a political party in Southern Cameroons. The KNC was established in 1952 as a merger of two pro-unification parties...
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    The Cameroon People's National Convention (CPNC) was a political party in British Cameroons. The CPNC was established in May 1960 by a merger of the Kamerun...
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  • Venezuelan parliamentary election, the 2025 Romanian presidential election, the 2025 Australian federal election, the 2025 Cameroonian presidential election,[citation...
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  • Thumbnail for Constitution of Cameroon
    British Southern Cameroons gained its independence and voted to join its French counterpart. Delegates framed a new Constitution, which made Cameroon a federation...
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    Kamerun People's Party (category Defunct political parties in Cameroon)
    Nigeria and the Cameroons. The KPP received 20% of the vote in the 1957 parliamentary elections, winning two of the 13 seats. The 1959 elections saw the KPP...
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  • Dominant-party system (category Elections)
    power since 5 June 1959 Parliamentary election, 2020: PAP won 61.2% of the popular vote and 83 out of 93 seats Presidential election, 2023: Former PAP...
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    provisions were made to allow for the election of six members of the Legislative Council the next year. On 30 November 1959, the Singapore State Arms and Flag...
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    plebiscite was conducted to determine the disposition of the Southern Cameroons and Northern Cameroons, which were administered by Britain as United Nations...
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  • Kamerun National Democratic Party (category Defunct political parties in Cameroon)
    pro-independence political party active in Southern Cameroons (now the North West and South West regions of the Republic of Cameroon) during the period of British...
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  • of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–1963) Mali Federation (1959–1960) Federal Republic of Cameroon (1961–1972) Uganda (1962–1967) Sénégambia Confederation...
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    Bassey Otu (category 1959 births)
    Bassey Edet Otu (born 18 October 1959) is a Nigerian politician and the current governor of Cross River State Southern Nigeria. who served as a one time...
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    carried the presidential election over Kenneth Kaunda with 76% of the vote. To add to the MMD landslide, in the parliamentary elections the MMD won 125 of the...
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    pre-independence election on 1964 where, with a much wider franchise, the United National Independence Party gained 55 of the 75 parliamentary seats. The Federation...
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    One Kamerun (category Defunct political parties in Cameroon)
    political party in British Cameroons. One Kamerun was established by Ndeh Ntumazah in 1957 after the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon left the territory. Supporting...
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  • municipal councils. Elections follow every 2 to 3 years with General Elections and Municipal Elections (Municipal Elections are not elections for the National...
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    over the French Cameroons by January 1, 1960, and to schedule a plebiscite in the north and south sections of the British Cameroons. With the admission...
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    Barthélemy Boganda (category 1959 deaths)
    administrative reforms and preparing for the next election. He was killed in a plane crash on 29 March 1959, while en route to Bangui. Experts found a trace...
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    a result of the 1961 plebiscite. Southern Cameroons opted to join the Republic of Cameroon while Northern Cameroons chose to join Nigeria. The northern...
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    (ITU) Midwest Democratic Front (MDF) National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons/National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) National Independence...
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    is held in the British Cameroons, resulting in the Northern Cameroons joining Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons joining Cameroon. 1962 Tennessee Nigeria...
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    joined by part of the British Cameroons mandate and trust territory on 1 October 1961. The other part of British Cameroons joined Nigeria. Minor armed insurgency...
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  • Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom (category Parliamentary records of the United Kingdom)
    Parliaments of 1690 and 1695, many aristocrats. In response to this, the Parliamentary Elections Act 1695 established 21 as the minimum age, although this was not...
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  • able to vote in local elections), and Switzerland (where, since 1971, women could vote at the federal level, and between 1959 and 1990, women got the...
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    Voting rights in Nigeria (category Election law)
    practices, the general elections of 1954 witnessed the usage of electoral colleges in the northern region and in the southern Cameroons. In the northern region...
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