[6] A joint list of BNA and the Nigerien Progressive Union (UPN) of Georges Condat received around 126,000 votes in the January 1956 French parliamentary elections.
[1][6] The list was the most voted-for, finishing in first place in seven provinces, and UPN leader Condat won one of the two seats in the French National Assembly.
[7] BNA won four seats in the Niamey municipal polls of November 18, 1956, finishing in third place behind PPN-RDA and the Nigerien Democratic Union (UDN) of Djibo Bakary.
[1] The following day, on November 19, 1956, the BNA merged with the UDN, forming what would soon become the Nigerien branch of the African Socialist Movement (MSA).
Likewise several former BNA leaders supported the 'Yes' vote in the 1958 French constitutional referendum in contrast to Bakary's opposition.