Cambodian general election, 1955

Cambodian parliamentary election, 1955

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All 91 seats to the National Assembly 46 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Norodom Sihanouk Norodom Phurissara Party Sangkum Democratic Last election Did not Contest Seats before Did not Contest 54 Seats won 91 0 Seat change 91 54 Popular vote 630,625 93,921 Percentage 82.7% 12.3%

General elections were held in Cambodia in 1955. The elections were held following the peace established at the 1954 Geneva Conference and the independence of the country. The election were postponed to September 1955. The result was a victory for the Sangkum party, which won all 91 seats.

Afterwards, accusations of massive electoral fraud arose. Kiernan (1985) notes that there were constituencies where the communists were judged to have strong popular support in which the Pracheachon candidates didn't obtain a single vote. In Memot, where communist guerrillas had been strong during the war and where there was a strong leftist following amongst rubber plantation workers, official figures gave 6149 votes for Sangkum, 99 for the Democrats and 0 votes for the Pracheachon candidate Sok Saphai.

Sihanouk himself implicitly admitted the fraud in a 1958 publication. He mentions 39 districts of the country as 'red' or 'pink', based on the 1955 voting. Several of the district he points out as communist strongholds in the 1955 elections, were constituencies where Pracheachon candidates officially had obtained few votes or none at all.

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