French legislative election, 1951 (Algeria)

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Elections to the National Assembly of France were held in Algeria on 17 June 1951. There were 30 seats for Algeria out of 625 at the National Assembly and 14 at the Council of the Republic (Senate).

As for the Algerian Assembly elected in 1948 and for the previous French legislative elections in 1945 and 1946, there were two electoral colleges, one for the Europeans, plus the Algerian Jews and a few Algerian Muslims ("French citizens") and one for the Algerian Muslims. Each college elected the same number of deputies, although the population ratio was about 1 to 7.

The 1951 legislative elections among the Muslim College, 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.

These legislative elections were the last ones organized in Algeria under the Fourth Republic, in 1956 it was 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.

List of Algerian deputies

Alger

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 72,13247.2% 4 - - 0 4
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties - -031,225 10.6% 00
Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto- -013,204 4.5% 00
French Section of the Workers' International 0 0
Liste communiste et d’union démocratique (Algerian Communist Party)31,714 20.7% 1 01
Concorde et entente républicaine - - -231,769 55
Total153,017 6 295,640 511
Registered voters 228,101- - 453,075- --
Sources: Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly

First College

Second College

Constantine

First College

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
Total81,959 100% 4

Second College

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 00
Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto 0 0 27,552 26,6% 0 0
Total167,632100% 2147,232 100% 3 103,411 100% 2 7
Registered voters - -219,809 - - 183,507---
Sources: Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly

First district

Second district

Third district

Oran

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 01
Rally of the French People32,385 22.8% 1 0 1
Rally of Republican Lefts 0 00
List of Republican Democrats (Popular Republican Movement) 0 00
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties 0 00
Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto 0 00
French Section of the Workers' International 1 01
Liste communiste et d’union démocratique (Algerian Communist Party)134,136 26,5% 1 01
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 134,136100% 5200,364 100% 38
Registered voters 198,098
Sources: Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly

First College

Second College

References

  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
  3. Georges Blachette, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  4. Paulin Colonna d'Istria, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  5. Pierre Fayet, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  6. Marcel Paternot, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  7. Marcel Ribère, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  8. Ahmed Aït-Ali, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  9. Abderrahmane Bentounès, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  10. Ali Ben Lakhdar Brahimi, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  11. Menouar Saïah, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  12. Amar Smaïl, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  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
  20. Ali Cadi, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  21. Mostefa Benbahmed, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  22. Mohamed Bendjelloul, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  23. Youcef Kessous, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  24. Amar Naroun, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  25. Allaoua Ben Aly Chérif, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  26. Abdelmadjid Ourabah, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  27. Henri Fouques-Duparc, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  28. François Quilici, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  29. Maurice Rabier, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  30. Roger de Saivre, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  31. Alice Sportisse Gomez-Nadal, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  32. Djilali Hakiki, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  33. Ahmed Mekki-Bezzeghoud, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  34. Chérif Sid Cara, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
  35. Djelloul Ould Kadi, Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly

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