Elections for the Legislative Council for the Territory of Nauru were held for the first and only time on 22 January 1966.
In 1962 the United Nations General Assembly voted by 80 –0 that the island should be granted independence.
[4] The electoral system remained the same as for the Local Government Council; the fourteen districts of Nauru were grouped into eight constituencies.
[6] Hammer DeRoburt (Boe constituency) and Roy Degoregore (Anetan and Ewa) were both elected unopposed.
[7] The new Legislative Council was opened by Australian Minister for the Territories Charles Barnes on 31 January 1966,[1] which marked the twentieth anniversary of the return to Nauru of survivors of the World War II deportation of islanders during the Japanese occupation.