1954 Guinea by-election

1954 Guinea by-election
Constituency of Guinea
Registered	466,666
Turnout	55.13% ( 1.82pp)
MP before election; Yacine Diallo; SFIO	Elected MP ; Diawadou Barry; Independent

A by-election for one of the French National Assembly seats from Guinea was held on June 27, 1954. The socialist Yaciné Diallo, who had won one of the three Guinean seats in the 1951 French National Assembly election, died in April 1954, after which the by-election was called. The election was won by Diawadou Barry, but it also marked the ascent of Sékou Touré's Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) in Guinean politics.^[1] The election was marred with irregularities and reportedly rigged by France to favor Barry and prevent Sékou Touré from winning.^[2]^[3]

^ Claude Rivière. Guinea: The Mobilization of a People Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
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