Guinean presidential election, 1961

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Presidential elections were held in Guinea for the first time on 15 January 1961. Incumbent Ahmed Sékou Touré, who had automatically become President when the country gained independence in 1958, was the only candidate (as the country as a one-party state with his Democratic Party of Guinea as the sole legal party at the time), and was re-elected unopposed.^[1]

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Ahmed Sekou Touré	Democratic Party of Guinea	1,576,580	100
Invalid/blank votes		167	–
Total		1,576,747	100
Registered voters/turnout		1,586,544	99.4
Source: Sternberger et al.^[2]

References

↑ Elections in Guinea African Elections Database
↑ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband, p839

Elections and referendums in Guinea

Presidential elections	1961 1968 1974 1982 1993 1998 2003 2010 2015

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Referendums	1945 1946 (May) 1946 (Oct) 1958 1990 2001

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