Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau (Chairman of the Military Council) Military François Duvalier National Unity Party General elections were held in Haiti on 22 September 1957.
[1] Former Minister of Labour François Duvalier won the presidential election running under the National Unity Party banner,[2] defeating Louis Déjoie,[3] 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.
Voters cut the nail of the little finger of the left hand and dipped it in indelible ink to mark that the person voted.