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1957 British Honduras general election

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Field	Value
election_name	1957 British Honduras general election
country	British Honduras
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
turnout	52.74%
previous_election	1954 British Honduras general election
previous_year	1954
next_election	1961 British Honduras general election
next_year	1961
seats_for_election	All 9 seats in the Legislative Assembly
election_date	20 March 1957
image1	[[File:George Cadle Price.jpg	150x150px	George Cadle Price]]
leader1	George Cadle Price
leader_since1	1956
party1	People's United Party
leaders_seat1	Belize North
last_election1	8 seats
seats1	9
seat_change1	1
popular_vote1	6,876
percentage1	61.32%
swing1	3.72
title	Majority party leader
before_election	George Cadle Price
after_election	George Cadle Price
before_party	People's United Party
after_party	People's United Party

General elections were held in British Honduras on 20 March 1957. The ruling People's United Party won all nine seats contested. 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.

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

Results

By division

Division	Electorate	Turnout	%	Political party	Candidate	Votes
Belize North	3,490	1,901	54.5		People's United Party	George Cadle Price
	National Party	Jaime Staines		28.4
Belize Rural	2,383	1,013	42.5		People's United Party	Louis Sylvestre
United Democratic Party (Belize)}}		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
United Democratic Party (Belize)}}		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
United Democratic Party (Belize)}}		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
United Democratic Party (Belize)}}		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
United Democratic Party (Belize)}}		Honduran Independence Party	Jose Leon Chin		15.3
Orange Walk	1,436	800	55.7		People's United Party	Victor Orellana
	National Party	William George		23.6
United Democratic Party (Belize)}}		Honduran Independence Party	George Flowers		7.9
Stann Creek	3,349	1,611	48.1		People's United Party	David McKoy
Independent}}		Independent	Harry Stanely		14.7
Independent}}		Independent	Lem Benguche		13.5
Independent}}		Independent	Max Arzu		13.1
Toledo	1,371	639	46.6		People's United Party	Faustino Zuniga
	National Party	Bernard Avilez		26.0
Independent}}		Independent	Charles Westby		25.4

References

link. (5 March 2016 , [[Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission]]. (Retrieved 19 November 2014))

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