The Togoland Congress was a political party formed in 1951 to campaign for the unification of the Ewe people

Ewe people

The Ewe are a people located in the southeast corner of Ghana, east of the Volta River, in an area now described as the Volta Region, in southern Togo and western Benin...

 in British Togoland

British Togoland

British Togoland was a League of Nations Class B mandate in West Africa, under the mandatory power of the United Kingdom. It was effectively formed in 1916 by the splitting of the occupied German protectorate of Togoland into two territories, French Togoland and British Togoland, during the First...

 and French Togoland

French Togoland

French Togoland was a France Mandate territory in West Africa, which later became the Togolese Republic.-Mandate territory:...

 as a separate Ewe state. The party was defeated in the May 1956 UN plebiscite in British Togoland

British Togoland

British Togoland was a League of Nations Class B mandate in West Africa, under the mandatory power of the United Kingdom. It was effectively formed in 1916 by the splitting of the occupied German protectorate of Togoland into two territories, French Togoland and British Togoland, during the First...

, which resulted in the unification of British Togoland and the Gold Coast

Gold Coast (British colony)

The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.-Overview:The first Europeans to arrive at the coast were the Portuguese in 1471. They encountered a variety of African kingdoms, some of which controlled substantial...

. The Togoland Congress won two seats in the Gold Coast elections of July 1956

Gold Coast legislative election, 1956

Elections for the Legislative Assembly were held in the Gold Coast on 17 July 1956. They were won by Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, which took 71 of the 104 seats.There were around 1,390,000 registered voters...

, but did not survive for long afterwards.