Territorial Assembly elections were held in Ubangi-Shari on 31 March 1957. The first and second college system for giving separate seats to Europeans and Africans was scrapped, and all 50 seats elected by universal suffrage

Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage consists of the extension of the right to vote to adult citizens as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors and non-citizens...

. The result was a victory for the Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa led by Barthélémy Boganda

Barthélemy Boganda

Barthélemy Boganda was the leading nationalist politician of what is now the Central African Republic. Boganda was active prior to his country's independence, during the period when the area, part of French Equatorial Africa, was administered by France under the name of Oubangui-Chari...

, which won all 50 seats.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa	347,000		50
Social Evolution of Haute-Sangha			0
Haute-Sangha Independents			0
Ouaka list			0
Total	366,000		50