The ruling People's United Party won all nine seats contested.

It was the PUP's first election under the leadership of George Cadle Price.

The Honduran Independence Party (HIP), a forerunner of the modern United Democratic Party, was founded the previous year by an anti-Price faction within the PUP led by former PUP leader Leigh Richardson.

Charles Westby, the NP's only successful candidate in the 1954 election, ran as an independent.

[1] The HIP and NP merged in 1958 to form the National Independence Party.