1957 British Honduras general election

1957 British Honduras general election

20 March 1957
All 9 seats in the Legislative Assembly
Turnout	52.74%
First party   Leader George Cadle Price Party PUP Leader since 1956 Leader's seat Belize North Last election 8 seats Seats won 9 Seat change 1 Popular vote 6,876 Percentage 61.32% Swing 3.72
Majority party leader before election George Cadle Price PUP Elected Majority party leader George Cadle Price PUP

General elections were 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 elections were 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.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	People's United Party	6,876	61.32	9	+1
	Honduran Independence Party	2,057	18.34	0	New
	National Party	1,449	12.92	0	–1
	Independents	832	7.42	0	0
Total		11,214	100.00	9	0
Valid votes		11,214	96.39
Invalid/blank votes		420	3.61
Total votes		11,634	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		22,058	52.74
Source: Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission

By division

Division	Electorate	Turnout	%	Political party		Candidate	Votes	%
Belize North	3,490	1,901	54.5		People's United Party	George Cadle Price		70.2
					National Party	Jaime Staines		28.4
Belize Rural	2,383	1,013	42.5		People's United Party	Louis Sylvestre		68.2
					Honduran Independence Party	Herman Jex		19.2
					National Party	Lindsay Burns		10.8
Belize South	2,767	1,648	59.6		People's United Party	Denbigh Jeffery		38.7
					Honduran Independence Party	Philip Goldson		38.6
					National Party	Herbert Fuller		21.5
Belize West	3,665	1,977	53.9		People's United Party	Albert Cattouse		57.4
					Honduran Independence Party	Leigh Richardson		26.7
					National Party	Lionel Francis		14.3
Cayo	2,019	1,044	51.7		People's United Party	Enrique De Paz		50.1
					Honduran Independence Party	Eduardo Espat		21.6
					National Party	Hamid Musa		6.7
Corozal	1,578	1,001	63.4		People's United Party	Santiago Ricalde		82.3
					Honduran Independence Party	Jose Leon Chin		15.3
Orange Walk	1,436	800	55.7		People's United Party	Victor Orellana		64.8
					National Party	William George		23.6
					Honduran Independence Party	George Flowers		7.9
Stann Creek	3,349	1,611	48.1		People's United Party	David McKoy		57.0
					Independent	Harry Stanely		14.7
					Independent	Lem Benguche		13.5
					Independent	Max Arzu		13.1
Toledo	1,371	639	46.6		People's United Party	Faustino Zuniga		46.2
					National Party	Bernard Avilez		26.0
					Independent	Charles Westby		25.4