General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate in November 1951.
Electoral system The 1947 constitution expanded the Legislative Council to 35 members, of which seven were government officials, seven were appointed Europeans, fourteen were Africans indirectly elected from the Protectorate (ten from District Councils and two from the Protectorate Assembly) and seven were Africans directly elected from the Colony.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p1886 Around 5,000 people were registered to vote.
Campaign Only five of the seven directly-elected constituencies were contested, with candidates running unopposed in two of the rural constituencies.Sternberger et al., pp1889−1890
Results The National Council (NCSL) won three of the seven elected seats, and the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) two.Akintola Wyse (2003) H. C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1919-1958, Cambridge University Press, p159 However, the SLPP gained the support of the indirectly elected protectorate representatives.Sierra Leone: Political parties Nations Encyclopedia
A total of 3,276 votes were cast; 2,438 in the three Freetown constituencies and 838 (550 and 288) in the two contested rural constituencies.
Elected members PartyElected memberDirectly-electedNational CouncilHerbert Bankole-BrightC M A ThompsonJ Rogers WilliamsSierra Leone People's PartyA G RandleM S MustaphaIndependentsI. T. A. Wallace-JohnsonJ C O CrowtherIndirectly-electedBo DistrictR B S KokerBonthe DistrictMilton MargaiBombali DistrictBai Farima Tass IIKailahum DistrictBokari Sambi of DaruKenema DistrictKenewa GamangaMoyamba DistrictW H FitzjohnPort Loko DistrictAlkali Modu IIIPujehun DistrictJaia KaikaiTonkolili DistrictBai KurrProtectorate AssemblySiaka StevensAlbert MargaiSource: Wyse
Aftermath The SLPP's Milton Margai was appointed Chief Minister in 1953.
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