Results
Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party won 34 of the 38 elected seats in the assembly, claiming all five seats and nearly 95% of the vote in urban areas; Nkrumah himself winning the Accra Central seat with 22,780 of the 23,122 votes cast. In rural areas the CPP won 29 of the 33 seats, taking around 72% of the vote. The main opposition, the United Gold Coast Convention, fared badly, winning only two seats, and was disbanded following the elections. Former members of the UGCC went on to form the Ghana Congress Party (which later became the United Party). The elections were also contested by the National Democratic Party.
The CPP was also supported in the Assembly by 22 of the indirectly elected members, and thus held 56 of the 84 seats.
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