Parliamentary elections in Northern Rhodesia in 1964

The parliamentary elections in Northern Rhodesia in 1964, now Zambia , were held on January 20 and 21, 1964.

There were two voting rounds for the Legislative Council , a main round voting for the 65 seats and one for the 10 reserved seats. Blacks voted in the first voting round, while whites got the reserved ones. Other ethnicities were allowed to choose which seats to choose. The United National Independence Party won the election by getting 55 seats. Its leader, Kenneth Kaunda , became Prime Minister of Northern Rhodes and led the country to independence on October 24th of the same year. At that point he became president.

The elections of January 1964 concerned the constitution of a Legislative Council before independence. The distribution of seats was set from the outset so that 65 seats were to be distributed among blacks and 10 seats among whites.

Results

Political party	Main round seats	Reserved seats	Total seats
United National Independence Party	55	0	55
Zambian African National Congress	10	0	10
National Progressive Party	0	10	10
total	65	10	75
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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Krennerich: Zambia . In: Dieter Nohlen; Michael Krennerich; Bernhard Thibaut (Ed.): Elections in Africa: A Data Handbook . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-19-829645-2 , pp. 945 .
2. ↑ Zambia: 1964 Elections ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. EISA 
3. ^ Elections in Zambia - African Elections Database
4. ^ African Elections Database