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Elections to the Legislative Council were held in the Colony of Natal for the first time in February 1857. They were the first elections after the territory had become a British Colony.

Following the elections, the 15-seat Legislative Council met for the first time on 23 March in the government schoolroom in Pietermaritzburg, and was opened by the Governor the following day. Donald Moodie was elected as Speaker.

References

1. Thomas Bulpin (1977) Natal and the Zulu Country, p322
2. Bulpin, p323
3. Bulpin, p324

v t e Elections and referendums in the Boer republics and South African colonial territories
Cape Colony Parliamentary elections 1854 1858–59 1862 1866 1870 1874 1878–79 1884 1888–89 1891 1894 1898 1903 1904 1908
Griqualand West Parliamentary elections 1873
Natalia Republic and Natal Parliamentary elections 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1857 1859 1880 1883 1892 1893 1897 1901 1902 1906 Referendums 1909
Orange Free State Presidential elections 1854 1855 1860 1863 1868 1873 1878 1883 1888 1893 1896 Parliamentary elections 1854 1907
Transvaal Presidential elections 1872 1883 1888 1893 1898 Parliamentary elections 1855 1856 1893 1907
See also: Elections in South Africa

• 1857 elections in Africa
• 1857 in the Colony of Natal
• Elections in Natal