1951 French legislative election in Algeria

Elections to the National Assembly of France were held in Algeria on 17 June 1951. Algeria had 30 of the 625 at the National Assembly.

These legislative elections were the last ones organized in Algeria under the Fourth Republic, in 1956 it was deemed impossible to organize elections in the midst of the Algerian War. The last French legislative elections organized in Algeria before independence were held in 1958.

Electoral system

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As for the Algerian Assembly elected in 1948 and for the previous French legislative elections in 1945 and 1946, there were two electoral colleges, which each elected 15 deputies; one for the 1.5 million French citizens who were subject to French civil law (mainly people of European descent, plus those Algerian Jews who had been granted citizenship under the Crémieux Decree, and a few thousand Algerian Muslims who had been granted this status at their request when they became subject to French civil law), and another one for the millions of people who before 1946 had the civil status of indigénat. This was a legal status, and could not be changed simply by religious conversion. In 1946 the Lamine Guèye law [fr] had given equal French citizenship and voting rights to the second group, subject to their voting in the second college, and with the right to vote of women citizens to be organised by the Algerian Assembly. However, the Assembly never started to discuss the matter.

Results

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The Second College elections, like the Algerian Assembly election of 1948, were rigged by the colonial administration to the detriment of the three anticolonial parties, the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties, the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto and the Algerian Communist Party.[1] The last one got two deputies in the European College, one in Alger and one in Oran.

PartyFirst CollegeSecond CollegeTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
List of Concord and Understanding231,92825.3755
Democratic List of Franco-Muslim Independence154,38516.8933
Progressive Independents153,76416.8222
Republican Independents109,58311.9933
Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto81,9778.9700
Communists–Democratic Union for Progress and Freedom77,60921.0322
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties76,8288.4000
Union of Independents–RPF72,20219.5644
Rally of the French People44,87312.1622
Republican Union1,6840.46037,0864.0611
French Section of the Workers' International37,72610.2211
Republican Union–Rally of Republican Lefts31,9428.6522
Democratic Union31,8923.4911
National Union and Independent Republicans31,0678.4211
Algerian Union29,5188.0011
Algerian Communist Party26,8902.9400
Independents, Peasants, National Republicans–RS16,5484.4811
Independent French14,5443.9411
Union of Republican Independents and Social Progress9,5421.0400
National Group of Republican Democrats–MRP6,5831.7800
Rally for Independent French1,3420.3600
Rally of Algerian Population7610.2100
Others2,7130.7403920.040
Independents120.0000
Total369,112100.0015914,279100.001530
Valid votes369,11298.07914,27999.39
Invalid/blank votes7,2651.935,5880.61
Total votes376,377100.00919,867100.00
Registered voters/turnout540,34869.651,406,88265.38
Source: Sternberger et al.

Alger

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Party First college Second college Total
seats
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Union algérienne 29,727 1 - - 0 1
Union list of Independents and of the Rally of the French People 72,132 47.2% 4 - - 0 4
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties - - 0 31,225 10.6% 0 0
Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto - - 0 13,204 4.5% 0 0
French Section of the Workers' International 0 0
Liste communiste et d’union démocratique (Algerian Communist Party) 31,714 20.7% 1 0 1
Concorde et entente républicaine - - - 231,769 5 5
Total 153,017 6 295,640 5 11
Registered voters 228,101 - - 453,075 - - -
Sources: Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly

First College

Second College

Constantine

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First College

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List Votes % Seats
liste d'Union républicaine et de Rassemblement des gauches républicaines
René Mayer
Paul Pantaloni
31,942 39% 2
liste de Rassemblement des gauches républicaines (RGR) et indépendants français
Jules Valle
17.7% 1
Rally of the French People
Léon Haumesser
14,284 17.4% 1
Rassemblement des populations algériennes 0
Total 81,959 100% 4

Second College

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Party First district Second district Third district Total
seats
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Indépendants progressistes 153,729 91,7% 2 - - - - - - 2
Républicains indépendants - - - 109,731 74.5% 3 - - - 3
Union démocratique (MRP) - - - - - 31% 1 1
Union républicaine (RGR) - - - - - - 36% 1 1
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties 0 0 0 0
Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto 0 0 27,552 26,6% 0 0
Total 167,632 100% 2 147,232 100% 3 103,411 100% 2 7
Registered voters - - 219,809 - - 183,507 - - -
Sources: Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly

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Second district

Third district

Oran

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Party First college Second college Total
seats
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Liste de réconciliation républicaine et de sauvegarde de l’Algérie française (Independents and Radicals) 12.3% 1 0 1
Rally of the French People 32,385 22.8% 1 0 1
Rally of Republican Lefts 0 0 0
List of Republican Democrats (Popular Republican Movement) 0 0 0
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties 0 0 0
Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto 0 0 0
French Section of the Workers' International 1 0 1
Liste communiste et d’union démocratique (Algerian Communist Party) 134,136 26,5% 1 0 1
Liste démocratique indépendante d'Union franco-musulmane - - - 154,385 77% 3 3
Centre républicain d'action paysanne et sociale et des démocrates indépendants 23,210 17.3% 1 0 1
Total 134,136 100% 5 200,364 100% 3 8
Registered voters 198,098
Sources: Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly

First College

Second College

References

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  1. ^ see e.g. a French official source from 1988: Ahmed Aït-Ali, in Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1940 à 1958, La documentation française (Paris), vol. 1. A, 1988
  2. ^ Adolphe Aumeran, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
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  13. ^ Léon Haumesser, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  14. ^ René Mayer, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  15. ^ Paul Pantaloni, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  16. ^ Jules Valle, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  17. ^ Mohamed Bengana, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  18. ^ Abdelkader Cadi, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  19. ^ elected at the second round with 53,868 votes on 96,981; more than 50% of the registered voters did not vote
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  32. ^ Djilali Hakiki, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
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See also

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