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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