General elections were held in Zanzibar on 17 January 1961 for the Legislative Council.
[1] The Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP) won ten seats, and the Zanzibar Nationalist Party (ZNP) won nine; the ASP won the constituency of Chake-Chake by just one vote, with 1,538 votes to the ZNP's 1,537.
[2] The Guinness Book of World Records listed the result in its annual editions under "Closest election".
Due to the resulting stalemate, fresh elections were held in June.
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