1959 Nigerian parliamentary election

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/1959_Nigerian_parliamentary_election
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:politics
gptkbp:country gptkb:Nigeria
gptkbp:date 12 December 1959
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 1959 Nigerian parliamentary election
gptkbp:legislature gptkb:House_of_Representatives_of_Nigeria
gptkbp:nextEdition 1964 Nigerian parliamentary election
gptkbp:party gptkb:Action_Group
gptkb:National_Council_of_Nigeria_and_the_Cameroons
gptkb:Northern_People's_Congress
gptkbp:previousEdition 1954 Nigerian parliamentary election
gptkbp:primeMinister gptkb:Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa
gptkbp:resultedIn formation of Nigeria's first independent government
gptkbp:seatingCapacity 312
gptkbp:seatsWonByActionGroup 73
gptkbp:seatsWonByNationalCouncilofNigeriaandtheCameroons 89
gptkbp:seatsWonByNorthernPeople'sCongress 134
gptkbp:seatsWonByOthers 16
gptkbp:significance last parliamentary election before Nigerian independence
gptkbp:type gptkb:politics
gptkbp:voterTurnout 79.5%
gptkbp:won gptkb:Northern_People's_Congress
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Northern_People's_Congress
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7