General elections were held in Haiti on 22 September 1957.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p381 Former Minister of Labour François Duvalier won the presidential election running under the National Unity Party banner,Haiti: Political Parties Country Studies defeating Louis Déjoie,AvSteeve Coupeau, The history of Haiti as well as independent moderate Clement Jumelle, who had dropped out on election day in a cloud of suspicions that the army was monitoring the election in favour of Duvalier. Former head of state Daniel Fignolé, considered a champion of poor blacks, was considered ineligible as he had been forcibly exiled months before the election, allegedly kidnapped.
Supporters of Duvalier also won the Chamber of Deputies elections.Nohlen, p389 Following the election, Déjoie went into exile in Cuba along with his supporters, fearing repression from Duvalier's supporters.
Over the next few years, Duvalier consolidated his power step by step, culminating in two sham "re-elections," the second of which made him president for life in 1964. Haiti was not to see another even partly free election until 1988, two years after the fall of Duvalier's son Jean-Claude.
Voters cut the nail of the little finger of the left hand and dipped it in indelible ink to mark that the person voted.
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