Independents won 30 of the 36 seats in the House of Assembly, with the Progressive Labour Party, which had been established three months before the elections, winning six of the nine seats it contested.

[1] Before the passing of the Parliamentary Election Act the franchise was restricted to property owners.

The Act introduced universal suffrage, but increasing the voting age from 21 to 25.

However, powerful white businessmen, who were the dominant force in Parliament at the time, also passed the Watlington Amendment, which gave landowners with rateable property in the territory a second vote in their home constituency.

Each of the nine parish was divided into two constituencies, each of which returned two members to the House of Assembly, making a total of 36 seats.