1957 British Honduras general election

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1957 British Honduras general election
← 1954 20 March 1957 1961 →
All 9 seats in the Legislative Assembly
Turnout52.74%
  First party
  George Cadle Price
Leader George Cadle Price
Party PUP
Leader since 1956
Leader's seat Belize North
Last election 8 seats
Seats won 9
Seat change Increase 1
Popular vote 6,876
Percentage 61.32%
Swing Decrease 3.72
Majority party leader before election

George Cadle Price
PUP

Elected Majority party leader

George Cadle Price
PUP

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General elections were held in British Honduras on 20 March 1957. The ruling People's United Party won all nine seats contested.[1] 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. Price would lead the party until 1996.

The Honduran Independence 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. The party fielded five out of a possible nine candidates, but failed to win any seats.[1]

The elections were the last for the pro-colonial National Party. , the NP's only successful candidate in the 1954 election, ran as an independent.[1] The HIP and NP merged in 1958 to form the National Independence Party.

Results[]

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
People's United Party6,87661.329+1
Honduran Independence Party2,05718.340New
National Party1,44912.920–1
Independents8327.4200
Total11,214100.0090
Valid votes11,21496.39
Invalid/blank votes4203.61
Total votes11,634100.00
Registered voters/turnout22,05852.74
Source: Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission

By division[]

Division Electorate Turnout % Political party Candidate Votes %
Belize North 3,490 1,901 54.5 People's United Party George Cadle Price 70.2
National Party Jaime Staines 28.4
Belize Rural 2,383 1,013 42.5 People's United Party Louis Sylvestre 68.2
Honduran Independence Party Herman Jex 19.2
National Party Lindsay Burns 10.8
Belize South 2,767 1,648 59.6 People's United Party Denbigh Jeffery 38.7
Honduran Independence Party Philip Goldson 38.6
National Party Herbert Fuller 21.5
Belize West 3,665 1,977 53.9 People's United Party Albert Cattouse 57.4
Honduran Independence Party Leigh Richardson 26.7
National Party Lionel Francis 14.3
Cayo 2,019 1,044 51.7 People's United Party Enrique De Paz 50.1
Honduran Independence Party Eduardo Espat 21.6
National Party Hamid Musa 6.7
Corozal 1,578 1,001 63.4 People's United Party Santiago Ricalde 82.3
Honduran Independence Party Jose Leon Chin 15.3
Orange Walk 1,436 800 55.7 People's United Party Victor Orellana 64.8
National Party William George 23.6
Honduran Independence Party George Flowers 7.9
Stann Creek 3,349 1,611 48.1 People's United Party David McKoy 57.0
Independent Harry Stanely 14.7
Independent Lem Benguche 13.5
Independent Max Arzu 13.1
Toledo 1,371 639 46.6 People's United Party Faustino Zuniga 46.2
National Party Bernard Avilez 26.0
Independent Charles Westby 25.4

References[]

  1. ^ a b c General Elections 1957 Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 19 November 2014)
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