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Parliamentary elections were held in Italian Somaliland on 8 March 1959.
History
The Somali Independent Constitutional Party and the Greater Somalia League boycotted the election. The result was a victory for the ruling Somali Youth League, which won 83 of the 90 seats in the enlarged Legislative Council, despite the party's number of votes falling from 333,820 to 237,134.
References
Italian Somaliland parliamentary election, 1959 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA