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</tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Indonesian_House_of_Representatives_(1950%E2%80%931956)" title="List of members of the Indonesian House of Representatives (1950–1956)">outgoing members</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Indonesian_House_of_Representatives_(1956%E2%80%931959)" title="List of members of the Indonesian House of Representatives (1956–1959)">elected members</a> →</div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><hr />All 257 seats of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Indonesia)" title="House of Representatives (Indonesia)">House of Representatives</a><br />129 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registered</th><td class="infobox-data">43,104,464<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeith19995_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeith19995-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">91.54%<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeith2007429_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeith2007429-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">Majority party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Minority party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #D20000;"><span class="notpageimage noresize" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sidik_Djojosukarto,_Kepartaian_di_Indonesia_(1954),_p20.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Sidik_Djojosukarto%2C_Kepartaian_di_Indonesia_%281954%29%2C_p20.jpg/112px-Sidik_Djojosukarto%2C_Kepartaian_di_Indonesia_%281954%29%2C_p20.jpg" decoding="async" width="112" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Sidik_Djojosukarto%2C_Kepartaian_di_Indonesia_%281954%29%2C_p20.jpg/168px-Sidik_Djojosukarto%2C_Kepartaian_di_Indonesia_%281954%29%2C_p20.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Sidik_Djojosukarto%2C_Kepartaian_di_Indonesia_%281954%29%2C_p20.jpg/224px-Sidik_Djojosukarto%2C_Kepartaian_di_Indonesia_%281954%29%2C_p20.jpg 2x" data-file-width="527" data-file-height="704" /></a></span> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #000000;"><span class="notpageimage noresize" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mohammad_Natsir,_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954,_p244.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Mohammad_Natsir%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p244.jpg/93px-Mohammad_Natsir%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p244.jpg" decoding="async" width="93" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Mohammad_Natsir%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p244.jpg/139px-Mohammad_Natsir%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p244.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Mohammad_Natsir%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p244.jpg/185px-Mohammad_Natsir%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p244.jpg 2x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="517" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Sidik_Djojosukarto" title="Sidik Djojosukarto">Sidik Djojosukarto</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Natsir" title="Mohammad Natsir">Mohammad Natsir</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Party" title="Indonesian National Party">PNI</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Masyumi_Party" title="Masyumi Party">Masyumi Party</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>57</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>57</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>8,434,653</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">7,903,886 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><b>22.32%</b> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">20.92% </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"><hr /> </td></tr> <tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">Third party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Fourth party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #017533;"><span class="notpageimage noresize" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Abdul_Wahab_Hasbullah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Abdul_Wahab_Hasbullah.jpg/113px-Abdul_Wahab_Hasbullah.jpg" decoding="async" width="113" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Abdul_Wahab_Hasbullah.jpg/169px-Abdul_Wahab_Hasbullah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Abdul_Wahab_Hasbullah.jpg/225px-Abdul_Wahab_Hasbullah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="376" data-file-height="500" /></a></span> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #ED3237;"><span class="notpageimage noresize" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DN_Aidit,_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954,_p230.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/DN_Aidit%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p230.jpg/92px-DN_Aidit%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p230.jpg" decoding="async" width="92" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/DN_Aidit%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p230.jpg/138px-DN_Aidit%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p230.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/DN_Aidit%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p230.jpg/184px-DN_Aidit%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p230.jpg 2x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="391" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Wahab_Hasbullah" title="Abdul Wahab Hasbullah">Abdul Wahab Hasbullah</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/D._N._Aidit" title="D. N. Aidit">D. N. Aidit</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Nahdlatul_Ulama" title="Nahdlatul Ulama">Nahdlatul Ulama</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia" title="Communist Party of Indonesia">PKI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">45 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">39 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">6,955,141 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">6,176,914 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">18.41% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">16.35% </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><div class="switcher-container"><div> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1955_Indonesian_legislative_election_results_map_by_electoral_district.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/1955_Indonesian_legislative_election_results_map_by_electoral_district.svg/300px-1955_Indonesian_legislative_election_results_map_by_electoral_district.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/1955_Indonesian_legislative_election_results_map_by_electoral_district.svg/450px-1955_Indonesian_legislative_election_results_map_by_electoral_district.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/1955_Indonesian_legislative_election_results_map_by_electoral_district.svg/600px-1955_Indonesian_legislative_election_results_map_by_electoral_district.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1605" data-file-height="836" /></a></span> <span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Results by electoral district</span></div><div> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_1955_Indonesian_Legislative_Election_-_Cities_and_Regencies.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Map_of_1955_Indonesian_Legislative_Election_-_Cities_and_Regencies.svg/300px-Map_of_1955_Indonesian_Legislative_Election_-_Cities_and_Regencies.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Map_of_1955_Indonesian_Legislative_Election_-_Cities_and_Regencies.svg/450px-Map_of_1955_Indonesian_Legislative_Election_-_Cities_and_Regencies.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Map_of_1955_Indonesian_Legislative_Election_-_Cities_and_Regencies.svg/600px-Map_of_1955_Indonesian_Legislative_Election_-_Cities_and_Regencies.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1631" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Results by cities and regencies</span></div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%; text-align:left;"><b><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Indonesia" title="Prime Minister of Indonesia">Prime Minister</a> before election</b><br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Harahap" title="Burhanuddin Harahap">Burhanuddin Harahap</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Masyumi_Party" title="Masyumi Party">Masyumi</a> </p> </td> <td style="width:50%; text-align:right;"><b>Elected <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Indonesia" title="Prime Minister of Indonesia">Prime Minister</a></b> <br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Ali_Sastroamidjojo" title="Ali Sastroamidjojo">Ali Sastroamidjojo</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Party" title="Indonesian National Party">PNI</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Legislative elections were held in <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> on 29 September 1955 to elect the 257 members of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Indonesia)" title="House of Representatives (Indonesia)">House of Representatives</a>. The election was the first national election held since the end of the <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution" title="Indonesian National Revolution">Indonesian National Revolution</a>, and saw over 37 million valid votes cast in over 93 thousand polling locations. The result of the election was inconclusive, as no party was given a clear mandate. The legislature which was elected through the election would eventually be dissolved by <a href="/wiki/President_of_Indonesia" title="President of Indonesia">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Sukarno" title="Sukarno">Sukarno</a> in 1959, through <a href="/wiki/President_Sukarno%27s_1959_Decree" title="President Sukarno's 1959 Decree">Presidential Decree number 150</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IndonesianParty1955.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/IndonesianParty1955.jpg/220px-IndonesianParty1955.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/IndonesianParty1955.jpg/330px-IndonesianParty1955.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/IndonesianParty1955.jpg/440px-IndonesianParty1955.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1336" data-file-height="1750" /></a><figcaption>Parties that had been officially registered in Indonesia in 1954.</figcaption></figure> <p>The first elections were originally planned for January 1946, but because the <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution" title="Indonesian National Revolution">Indonesian National Revolution</a> was still underway, this was not possible. After the war, every cabinet had elections in its program. In February 1951 the Natsir cabinet introduced an election bill, but the cabinet fell before it could be debated. The next cabinet, led by Sukiman did hold some regional elections.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_273_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_273-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finally, in February 1952, the Wilopo cabinet introduced a bill for voter registration. Discussions in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Indonesia)" title="House of Representatives (Indonesia)">House of Representatives</a> did not start until September because of various objections from the political parties. According to Feith, there were three factors. Firstly, legislators were worried about losing their seats; secondly they were worried about a possible swing to <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a> parties and thirdly an electoral system in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Provisional_Constitution_of_1950" title="Provisional Constitution of 1950">Provisional Constitution of 1950</a> would mean less representation for regions outside <a href="/wiki/Java" title="Java">Java</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_274_5_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_274_5-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Given the fact that cabinets had fallen after introducing controversial measures, there was reluctance to introduce an election bill and there were concerns about possible political conflicts caused by electioneering.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_276_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_276-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, many political leaders wanted elections as the existing legislature was based on a compromise with the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> (the erstwhile colonial power) and as such had little popular authority. They also believed elections would bring about greater political stability.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_277_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_277-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "17 October 1952 affair", when armed soldiers in front of the palace demanded dissolution of the legislature, led to greater demands from all parties for early elections. By 25 November, an elections bill had been submitted to the House of Representatives. After 18 weeks of debate and 200 proposed amendments, the bill passed on 1 April 1953 and became law on 4 April. It stipulated one member of the legislature for 150,000 residents and gave the right to vote to everybody over the age of 18, or who was or had been married.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_278_280_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_278_280-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Once the bill had passed the cabinet began appointing members of the Central Electoral Committee. This was to have one member from each government party and an independent chairman. However, the <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Party" title="Indonesian National Party">Indonesian National Party</a> (PNI) protested that they had no members on the committee, and this dispute was still unresolved when the cabinet fell on 2 June.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_281_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_281-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 August 1953 the new prime minister, <a href="/wiki/Ali_Sastroamidjojo" title="Ali Sastroamidjojo">Ali Sastroamidjojo</a>, announced a 16-month schedule for elections starting from January 1954. On 4 November the government announced a new Central Electoral Committee chaired by PNI member S. Hadikusomo and including all the parties represented in the government, namely <a href="/wiki/Nahdatul_Ulama" class="mw-redirect" title="Nahdatul Ulama">Nahdatul Ulama</a> (NU), the <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Islamic_Union_Party" title="Indonesian Islamic Union Party">Indonesian Islamic Union Party</a> (PSII) the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Indonesian_People%27s_Party&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Indonesian People's Party (page does not exist)">Indonesian People's Party</a> (PRI), the <a href="/wiki/National_People%27s_Party_(Indonesia)" title="National People's Party (Indonesia)">National People's Party</a> (PRN), the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(Indonesia,_1949)" title="Labour Party (Indonesia, 1949)">Labor Party</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Peasants_Front_of_Indonesia" title="Peasants Front of Indonesia">Peasants Front of Indonesia</a> (BTI), as well as the government-supporting <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Education_Movement" title="Islamic Education Movement">Islamic Education Movement</a> (Perti) and the <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Christian_Party" title="Indonesian Christian Party">Indonesian Christian Party</a> (Parkindo).<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_348_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_348-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_system">Electoral system</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Electoral system"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 257 seats of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Indonesia,_1956%E2%80%931959)" title="House of Representatives (Indonesia, 1956–1959)">House of Representatives</a> were elected in 16 multi-member constituencies, with the number of seats in each constituencies being proportional to its population size. The elections were held using <a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">proportional representation</a>, with seats allocated using the <a href="/wiki/Largest_remainder_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Largest remainder method">largest remainder method</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hare_quota" title="Hare quota">Hare quota</a> in each constituency.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seats that remained unfilled due to parties not meeting the quota were then filled nationally, also using the largest remainder method and Hare quota. Any seats still remaining were allocated to parties with the largest number of remaining votes. Overall, 190 seats were elected with the constituency quota and 47 seats were elected with the national quota, with the 20 remaining seats elected in the last step.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The electoral system caused a discrepancy between apportioned and elected seats in a constituency, with East Java and Central Java each gaining five seats, West Java gaining two seats, and East Nusa Tenggara gaining one seat more than they were originally apportioned, while the remaining constituencies lost either one or three seats, with the exception of Central Sumatra and West Nusa Tenggara which elected the same amount of seats as they were apportioned.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campaign">Campaign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1955_Indonesian_Election_Posters.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/1955_Indonesian_Election_Posters.png/350px-1955_Indonesian_Election_Posters.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/1955_Indonesian_Election_Posters.png/525px-1955_Indonesian_Election_Posters.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/1955_Indonesian_Election_Posters.png 2x" data-file-width="562" data-file-height="356" /></a><figcaption>Various large election-campaign posters of participating political parties, with their symbols (amongst many, the PSII, the PNI, the PKI and Masjumi) on display in the run-up to the election.</figcaption></figure> <p>According to Feith, the first phase of the election campaign began on 4 April 1953 when the election bill passed into law, and the second phase when the Central Electoral Committee approved the party symbols on 31 May 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_1999_10_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_1999_10-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time the bill passed into law, the cabinet was a coalition of the Islamic-based <a href="/wiki/Masjumi" class="mw-redirect" title="Masjumi">Masjumi</a> and the nationalistic PNI. The next two successive cabinets were coalitions led by one of the two aforementioned parties with the other in opposition. Therefore, the main issue of the campaign was the debate between these two parties over the role of Islam in the state. Masjumi denied aiming for an Islamic state while the PNI emphasized that their pro-<a href="/wiki/Pancasila_(politics)" title="Pancasila (politics)">Pancasila</a> stance was not anti-Islam as Masjumi sought to portray. The other two main and major Islamic parties, the NU and the PSII, supported Masjumi in this debate. A third factor was the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia" title="Communist Party of Indonesia">Communist Party of Indonesia</a> (PKI), which campaigned on such significant issues like poverty due to the continued imperialist-leaning/-influenced nature of the government's cabinet policy. Masjumi tried to draw a clear line between the PKI and other political parties, accusing it of being a puppet element and a tool of Moscow in the country, as well as of seeking to influence and then spread communist ideology across Indonesia.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_1999_1519_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_1999_1519-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Party programs were rarely widely discussed during the campaign. Party symbols with or without campaign slogans were displayed on most streets and thoroughfares in cities, towns and villages all across the country, as well as on private homes, public buildings, buses and trains, trees and even calendars. The PKI made extraordinary efforts to promote its symbol, as seen in their displaying it everywhere, from political posters to simple graffiti to newspapers, to make sure people everywhere saw and noticed it. The PKI's election campaign was based around social activities such as organizing tool-sharing programs for farmers and leading and directing the building of irrigation canals and channels for agriculture and the peasantry. As mentioned earlier, the party was looking beyond the election to build a permanent basis of widespread and large-scale support throughout Indonesia.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_1999_2736_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_1999_2736-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1955_Indonesian_Electoral_Regions.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/1955_Indonesian_Electoral_Regions.png/350px-1955_Indonesian_Electoral_Regions.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/1955_Indonesian_Electoral_Regions.png/525px-1955_Indonesian_Electoral_Regions.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/1955_Indonesian_Electoral_Regions.png/700px-1955_Indonesian_Electoral_Regions.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="590" /></a><figcaption>The electoral regions Indonesia was divided into for the 1955 elections.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the last few months of the election campaign, the major parties focused on educating and mass-informing voters in areas where they had managed to establish village-level influence, organization and control. This phase included persuasion as well as threats.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_1999_37_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_1999_37-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>All through September, party leaders constantly traveled around the country to promote their parties, themselves and their political ideologies. Daily party-newspapers and magazines were printed in constantly-increasing numbers and given away for free. The articles in such political-dailies and media like these attacked rival parties and extolled their own. In the villages across Indonesia, the emphasis shifted from large-scale mass rallies to small-scale meetings and gatherings and house-to-house canvassing of political support.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_427_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_427-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to former agent Joseph Smith, the CIA covertly gave a million dollars to the centrist Masyumi Party to reduce support for <a href="/wiki/Sukarno" title="Sukarno">Sukarno</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia" title="Communist Party of Indonesia">Communist Party of Indonesia</a> during the election.<sup id="cite_ref-SMITH210211_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SMITH210211-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Preparations_and_polling_day">Preparations and polling day</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Preparations and polling day"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sukarno_in_line_to_vote_(1955),_Bung_Karno_Penjambung_Lidah_Rakjat_243.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Sukarno_in_line_to_vote_%281955%29%2C_Bung_Karno_Penjambung_Lidah_Rakjat_243.jpg/350px-Sukarno_in_line_to_vote_%281955%29%2C_Bung_Karno_Penjambung_Lidah_Rakjat_243.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Sukarno_in_line_to_vote_%281955%29%2C_Bung_Karno_Penjambung_Lidah_Rakjat_243.jpg/525px-Sukarno_in_line_to_vote_%281955%29%2C_Bung_Karno_Penjambung_Lidah_Rakjat_243.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Sukarno_in_line_to_vote_%281955%29%2C_Bung_Karno_Penjambung_Lidah_Rakjat_243.jpg/700px-Sukarno_in_line_to_vote_%281955%29%2C_Bung_Karno_Penjambung_Lidah_Rakjat_243.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2550" data-file-height="1646" /></a><figcaption>Sukarno waiting in line to cast his vote</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1955_Indonesian_Election_Sukarno.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/1955_Indonesian_Election_Sukarno.png/350px-1955_Indonesian_Election_Sukarno.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/1955_Indonesian_Election_Sukarno.png/525px-1955_Indonesian_Election_Sukarno.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/1955_Indonesian_Election_Sukarno.png 2x" data-file-width="565" data-file-height="362" /></a><figcaption>President <a href="/wiki/Sukarno" title="Sukarno">Sukarno</a> casting his vote on polling day</figcaption></figure> <p>Although in April 1954 the Central Electoral Committee had announced that the election would be held on 29 September the following year, by July and early August, preparations had fallen behind schedule The appointment of members of polling station committees planned to start on 1 August did not begin in many regions until 15 September. In his independence day address on 17 August, President <a href="/wiki/Sukarno" title="Sukarno">Sukarno</a> said that anybody putting obstacles in way of elections was a "traitor to the revolution". On 8 September, the information minister said that elections would be held on September 29 except in a few areas where preparations were not complete. Eventually, as a result of "feverish activity", polling station committees were ready on election day.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_424426_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_424426-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the run up to polling day, rumors spread, including a widespread poisoning scare in Java. There was also hoarding of goods. In many parts of country there was a spontaneous and unannounced curfew for several nights before polling day. </p><p>On polling day itself, many voters were waiting to cast their ballots by 7am. The day was peaceful as people realized nothing bad was going to happen. A total of 87.65% of voters cast a valid vote and 91.54% voted. Allowing for deaths between registration and polling, only about 6% did not vote.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_429_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_429-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1955_elections.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/1955_elections.png/300px-1955_elections.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/1955_elections.png/450px-1955_elections.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/1955_elections.png/600px-1955_elections.png 2x" data-file-width="948" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>The share of the vote. Four parties won almost 80% of the vote</figcaption></figure> <p>The election was a major success for the NU, which saw its number of seats in the House of Representatives increase from 8 to 45. A surprise was the poor showing of Masyumi, the Socialist Party and Murba. There was a large gap between the "big 4" (PNI, Masjumi, NU and PKI, with more than three-quarters of the vote shared among them) and the rest of the parties, but contrary to expectations, the number of parties actually increased - there were now 28 with seats in the legislature as opposed to 20 before the election, with the largest party holding only 22% of seats. </p><p>The distribution of votes was uneven across the country. The PNI won 85.97% of its vote in Java, the NU 85.6% and the PKI 88.6%, despite the fact that only 66.2% of the population lived on Java. Conversely only 51.3% of Masjumi's vote came from Java, and it established itself as the leading party for the one-third of people living outside Java.<sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_436437_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_436437-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ricklefs_1991_p238_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ricklefs_1991_p238-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"><caption></caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="5" style="text-align:center;color:black;background:#F8F9FA"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DPR_Hasil_Pemilu_1955.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/DPR_Hasil_Pemilu_1955.svg/360px-DPR_Hasil_Pemilu_1955.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/DPR_Hasil_Pemilu_1955.svg/540px-DPR_Hasil_Pemilu_1955.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/DPR_Hasil_Pemilu_1955.svg/720px-DPR_Hasil_Pemilu_1955.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a></span></th></tr><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Party</th><th scope="col">Votes</th><th scope="col">%</th><th scope="col">Seats</th></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#D20000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Party" title="Indonesian National Party">Indonesian National Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">8,434,653</td><td style="text-align:right">22.32</td><td style="text-align:right">57</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#000000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Masyumi_Party" title="Masyumi Party">Masyumi Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">7,903,886</td><td style="text-align:right">20.92</td><td style="text-align:right">57</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#017533"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Nahdlatul_Ulama" title="Nahdlatul Ulama">Nahdlatul Ulama</a></td><td style="text-align:right">6,955,141</td><td style="text-align:right">18.41</td><td style="text-align:right">45</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#ED3237"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia" title="Communist Party of Indonesia">Communist Party of Indonesia</a></td><td style="text-align:right">6,176,914</td><td style="text-align:right">16.35</td><td style="text-align:right">39</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#000000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Islamic_Union_Party" title="Indonesian Islamic Union Party">Indonesian Islamic Union Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,091,160</td><td style="text-align:right">2.89</td><td style="text-align:right">8</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#799BCB"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Christian_Party" title="Indonesian Christian Party">Indonesian Christian Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,003,325</td><td style="text-align:right">2.66</td><td style="text-align:right">8</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#800000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Party_(Indonesia)" title="Catholic Party (Indonesia)">Catholic Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">770,740</td><td style="text-align:right">2.04</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FA0000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Indonesia" title="Socialist Party of Indonesia">Socialist Party of Indonesia</a></td><td style="text-align:right">753,191</td><td style="text-align:right">1.99</td><td style="text-align:right">5</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#D1E231"></td><td><a href="/wiki/League_of_Supporters_of_Indonesian_Independence" title="League of Supporters of Indonesian Independence">League of Supporters of Indonesian Independence</a></td><td style="text-align:right">541,306</td><td style="text-align:right">1.43</td><td style="text-align:right">4</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#005825"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Education_Movement" title="Islamic Education Movement">Islamic Education Movement</a></td><td style="text-align:right">483,014</td><td style="text-align:right">1.28</td><td style="text-align:right">4</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:black"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_People%27s_Party_(Indonesia)" title="National People's Party (Indonesia)">National People's Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">242,125</td><td style="text-align:right">0.64</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:red"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(Indonesia,_1949)" title="Labour Party (Indonesia, 1949)">Labour Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">224,167</td><td style="text-align:right">0.59</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FFA500"></td><td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Movement_to_Defend_the_Pancasila&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Movement to Defend the Pancasila (page does not exist)">Movement to Defend the Pancasila</a></td><td style="text-align:right">219,985</td><td style="text-align:right">0.58</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indonesia_People%27s_Party&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Indonesia People's Party (page does not exist)">Indonesia People's Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">206,261</td><td style="text-align:right">0.55</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#D2691E"></td><td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Employee%27s_Association_of_the_Republic_of_Indonesia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Employee's Association of the Republic of Indonesia (page does not exist)">Police Employee's Association of the Republic of Indonesia</a></td><td style="text-align:right">200,419</td><td style="text-align:right">0.53</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#ffe5e5"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Murba_Party" title="Murba Party">Murba Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">199,588</td><td style="text-align:right">0.53</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#800080"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Consultative_Council_for_Indonesian_Citizenship" title="Consultative Council for Indonesian Citizenship">Consultative Council for Indonesian Citizenship</a></td><td style="text-align:right">178,887</td><td style="text-align:right">0.47</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FFFF00"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Great_Indonesia_Unity_Party" title="Great Indonesia Unity Party">Great Indonesia Unity Party</a>–<a href="/wiki/Wongsonegoro" title="Wongsonegoro">Wongsonegoro</a></td><td style="text-align:right">178,481</td><td style="text-align:right">0.47</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indonesian_Movement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Indonesian Movement (page does not exist)">Indonesian Movement</a></td><td style="text-align:right">154,792</td><td style="text-align:right">0.41</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:red"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Marhaen_People%27s_Union" title="Indonesian Marhaen People's Union">Indonesian Marhaen People's Union</a></td><td style="text-align:right">149,287</td><td style="text-align:right">0.40</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#0093dd"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Dayak_Unity_Party" title="Dayak Unity Party">Dayak Unity Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">146,054</td><td style="text-align:right">0.39</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FFFF00"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Great_Indonesia_Unity_Party" title="Great Indonesia Unity Party">Great Indonesia Unity Party</a>–<a href="/wiki/Hazairin" title="Hazairin">Hazairin</a></td><td style="text-align:right">114,644</td><td style="text-align:right">0.30</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:<strong class="error">Value not in template. Please request that it be added.</strong>"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Tharikah_Unity_Party" title="Islamic Tharikah Unity Party">Islamic Tharikah Unity Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">85,131</td><td style="text-align:right">0.23</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:<strong class="error">Value not in template. Please request that it be added.</strong>"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Victory_Force" title="Islamic Victory Force">Islamic Victory Force</a></td><td style="text-align:right">81,454</td><td style="text-align:right">0.22</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:<strong class="error">Value not in template. Please request that it be added.</strong>"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Village_People%27s_Union" title="Village People's Union">Village People's Union</a></td><td style="text-align:right">77,919</td><td style="text-align:right">0.21</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:<strong class="error">Value not in template. Please request that it be added.</strong>"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Party_of_the_People_of_Free_Indonesia" title="Party of the People of Free Indonesia">Party of the People of Free Indonesia</a></td><td style="text-align:right">72,523</td><td style="text-align:right">0.19</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:red"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Acoma_Party" title="Acoma Party">Acoma Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">64,514</td><td style="text-align:right">0.17</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Soedjono_Prawirosoedarso" title="Soedjono Prawirosoedarso">R. Soejono Prawirosoedarso</a> & Associates</td><td style="text-align:right">53,305</td><td style="text-align:right">0.14</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#DDDDBB"></td><td>Other parties and independents</td><td style="text-align:right">1,022,433</td><td style="text-align:right">2.71</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold"><td colspan="2">Total</td><td style="text-align:right">37,785,299</td><td style="text-align:right">100.00</td><td style="text-align:right">257</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom"><td colspan="5" style="color:black;background:#eaecf0"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Registered voters/turnout</th><td>43,104,464</td><td>–</td><td></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><td colspan="5" style="text-align:left">Source: <a href="/wiki/General_Elections_Commission" title="General Elections Commission">General Elections Commission</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Indonesia,_1956%E2%80%931959)" title="House of Representatives (Indonesia, 1956–1959)">House of Representatives (Indonesia, 1956–1959)</a></div> <p>The poor showing of the parties in the cabinet of Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Harahap" title="Burhanuddin Harahap">Burhanuddin Harahap</a> was a major blow. The parties who did better, such as the NU and the PSII were "reluctant" cabinet members with a weak standing. This left the government with the choice of making major concessions to the NU and PSII or seeing them leave the cabinet. With no clear electoral verdict, it was back to inter-party politicking and bargaining. The lack of a clear outcome discredited the existing political system. </p><p>The new House of Representatives convened on 4 March 1956. It was to last four years. In his opening speech, President Sukarno called for an Indonesian form of democracy, and over the next few years, he would speak more about his concept (<i>konsepsi</i>) of a new system of government. In 1957, the era of <a href="/wiki/Liberal_democracy_period_in_Indonesia" title="Liberal democracy period in Indonesia">Liberal Democracy</a> came to an end with the establishment of <a href="/wiki/Guided_Democracy_in_Indonesia" title="Guided Democracy in Indonesia">Guided Democracy</a>. Indonesia would have to wait until 1999 for its next free national elections.<sup id="cite_ref-Ricklefs_1991_p238_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ricklefs_1991_p238-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FEITH_437_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEITH_437-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FRIEND_406_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FRIEND_406-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_People%27s_Representative_Council,_1956%E2%80%931959" class="mw-redirect" title="List of members of the People's Representative Council, 1956–1959">List of members of the People's Representative Council, 1956–1959</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-lower-alpha" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Died during the campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeith2007579_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeith2007579-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_Indonesian_legislative_election&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeith19995-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeith19995_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFeith1999">Feith 1999</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeith2007429-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeith2007429_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFeith2007">Feith 2007</a>, p. 429.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeith2007579-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeith2007579_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFeith2007">Feith 2007</a>, p. 579.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_273-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_273_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p273</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_274_5-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_274_5_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p274-275</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_276-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_276_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p276</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_277-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_277_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p277</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_278_280-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_278_280_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p278-280</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_281-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_281_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p281</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_348-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_348_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p348</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ellis (2004) p. 497</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Biro Humas Komisi Pemilihan Umum (2000) pp. 20–21</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Biro Humas Komisi Pemilihan Umum (2000) pp. 23–45</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_1999_10-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_1999_10_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (1999) p10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_1999_1519-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_1999_1519_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (1999) p15-19</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_1999_2736-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_1999_2736_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (1999) p27-36</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_1999_37-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_1999_37_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (1999) p37</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_427-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_427_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p427</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-SMITH210211-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-SMITH210211_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith (1976) pp110-111</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_424426-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_424426_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p424-426</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_429-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_429_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p429</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_436437-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_436437_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p436-437</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ricklefs_1991_p238-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ricklefs_1991_p238_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ricklefs_1991_p238_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ricklefs (1991) p238</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Biro Humas Komisi Pemilihan Umum (2000) p. 18</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FEITH_437-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FEITH_437_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feith (2007) p437</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FRIEND_406-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FRIEND_406_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Friend(2003) p406</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading 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