1956 Gold Coast general election

1956 Gold Coast general election
July 17, 1956 (1956-07-17)
All 104 seats in the legislative assembly
53 seats needed for a majority
Turnout697,257 (50.1% of registered voters)
  First party Second party Third party
 
NPP
NLM
Leader Kwame Nkrumah Simon Diedong Dombo J. B. Danquah
Party CPP NPP NLM
Last election 71 15 N/A
Seats won 71 15 12
Seat change 1 12
Popular vote 391,817 68,709 145,657
Percentage 57.10% 10.39% 20.89%

General elections were held in the Gold Coast (soon to become Ghana) on 17 July 1956. The result was a victory for Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, which won 71 of the 104 seats.

A new constitution, approved on 29 April 1954, established a cabinet composed of African ministers drawn from an all-African legislature chosen by direct election. In the following general election, the Convention People's Party won the majority of seats in the new Legislative Assembly.

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