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Cecilia Davies was a Gambian politician.[1] Davies was one of the first women in The Gambia to be elected to a governmental body.

1946 elections

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Davies and Hannah Forster defeated eight male candidates in the October 1946 elections[2] to the Bathurst Town Council (the predecessor of today's Banjul City Council) in the Soldier Town ward[3] of the Gambian capital.

A few years earlier, Hannah Mahoney had been a member of the Bathurst Advisory Town Council, but she had not been elected to office.

References

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  1. ^ Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia. Scarecrow Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-6260-9, S. 244
  2. ^ Hughes, Arnold; Perfect, David. Woronoff, Jon (ed.). "Historical Dictionary of The Gambia" (PDF). Center for African Studies of Shanghai Normal University. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  3. ^ Hughes, Arnold; Perfect, David. A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994. Boydell & Brewer. p. 353-484. ISBN 9781580466820.

Category:Gambian politicians