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1957 British Honduras general election Turnout 52.74%
First party
Leader
George Cadle Price
Party
PUP
Leader since
1956
Leader's seat
Belize North
Last election
8 seats
Seats won
9
Seat change
1
Popular vote
6,876
Percentage
61.32%
Swing
3.72
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 . Charles Westby , 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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Honduran Independence Party
George Flowers
7.9
Stann Creek
3,349
1,611
48.1
People's United Party
David McKoy
57.0
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Independent
Harry Stanely
14.7
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Independent
Lem Benguche
13.5
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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
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Independent
Charles Westby
25.4
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