1857 Natal parliamentary election

Elections to the Legislative Council were held in the Colony of Natal for the first time in February 1857.^[1] 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.^[2] Donald Moodie was elected as Speaker.^[3]

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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