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The 1957 Birmingham municipal election was held to fill three four-year terms on the Birmingham City Commission. As with most elections of the time, the only competitive campaigning was done for the Democratic Party primary. 45% of the city's 70,000 or so registered and poll-tax paying citizens voted.
Results
Commission President
Commissioner of Public Improvements
Commissioner of Public Safety
- Bull Connor, 15,891 votes
- Robert Lindbergh, 15,788 votes
References
- Nunnelly, William A. (1991) Bull Connor. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 0817304959
- Harris, W. Edward (2004) Miracle in Birmingham: A Civil Rights Memoir, 1954-1965. New York, New York: Indianapolis, Indiana: Stonework Press. ISBN 9780963886477