1956 Gold Coast general election

1956 Gold Coast general election
17 July 1956
All 104 seats in the Legislative Assembly
53 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
CPP Kwame Nkrumah 57.10 71 −1
NLM J. B. Danquah 20.89 12 New
NPP Simon Diedong Dombo 10.39 15 0
Togoland Congress Senyo Gatror Antor 2.92 2 −1
MAP Bankole Awoonor-Renner
Cobina Kessie		 1.59 1 0
Federation of Youth Modesto Apaloo 1.54 1 0
Independents – 5.57 2 −9
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

General elections were held in the Gold Coast (soon to become Ghana) on 17 July 1956. The result was a victory for Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, which won 71 of the 104 seats.

A new constitution, approved on 29 April 1954, established a cabinet composed of African ministers drawn from an all-African legislature chosen by direct election. In the elections that followed, the Convention People's Party won the majority of seats in the new Legislative Assembly.

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