The 1969 election was rigged by the governing SYL.

Evidence

In Garowe, the DAP representative was taken away by the police and jailed, and ballots were counted without any representative from the DAP. The regional judge confirmed that the DAP won, but the central election office in Mogadishu gave the two parliamentary seats to the SYL. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1022