The next elections were held in June the following year, with d'Arboussier defeated by Henri Seignon in the First College and Tchicaya re-elected in the Second.
Another election was held in November that year, with the Second College gaining an extra seat, and now split into Congolese and Gabonese sections.
The Representative Council was converted into a Territorial Assembly prior to the 1952 elections, with Aubame's Gabonese Democratic and Social Union (UDSG) winning 14 of the 24 seats.
This resulted in the BDG's Léon M'ba becoming Prime Minister, and President when the country became independent in 1960.
Multi-party politics was reintroduced in 1990 and parliamentary elections that year saw the PDG retain its majority in the National Assembly, although it was reduced to 63 of the 120 seats.
The 2011 parliamentary elections were boycotted by most opposition parties, resulting in the PDG winning 115 of the 121 seats.
[5] The President of Gabon is elected for a seven-year term in a single round of voting by plurality.
[6] The 120 members of the National Assembly are elected from nine multi-member constituencies based on the provinces using the two-round system.
The elections are carried out by municipal councillors and departmental assembly members using the two-round system.
[7] During the colonial era, Gabonese voters participated in French constitutional referendums in 1945, May 1946 and October 1946.