Between February 14 and 22nd 1950 Kwame Nkrumah was tried and sentenced to three 1 year terms in prison. In April 1950, the Convention People’s Party (CPP) won all 7 seats in the Accra Municipal Council elections. In November of the same year, the CPP won all seats in the Kumasi Town Council Elections and as a result, on December 30th, 1950 the colonial government published the new Gold Coast constitution.