British Honduras general election, 1957

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All 9 seats in the British Honduras Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party	Third party
		HIP	NP
Leader	George Cadle Price	Leigh Richardson	W. H. Courtenay
Party	PUP	HIP	NP
Alliance	PUP-GWU
Leader since	1956	1956	1951
Leader's seat	Belize North	Belize West (lost seat)	(not a candidate)
Last election	8 seats	(new party)	1 seat
Seats won	9	0	0
Seat change	1		1
Popular vote	6,876	2,057	1,449
Percentage	61.32%	18.34%	12.92%
Swing	3.72	18.34	10.06

Majority party leader before election

George Cadle Price
PUP

Elected Majority party leader

George Cadle Price
PUP

A legislative election was 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 election was 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.

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