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{{Politics of Algeria}}

Elections to the [[National Assembly of France]] were held in [[French Algeria|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 [[French Fourth Republic|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==
As for the [[1948 Algerian Assembly election|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 {{Interlanguage link|Lamine Guèye law|lt=Lamine Guèye law|fr|Loi Lamine Guèye}} 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==
The Second College elections, like the [[1948 Algerian Assembly election|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]].<ref>see e.g. a French official source from 1988: [http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=59 Ahmed Aït-Ali], in ''Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1940 à 1958'', [[Documentation française|La documentation française]] (Paris), vol. 1. A, 1988</ref> The last one got two deputies in the European College, one in Alger and one in Oran.

{{Election results
|firstround=First College|secondround=Second College
|party1=List of Concord and Understanding|votes1=|seats1=|votes1_2=231928|seats1_2=5|totseats1=5
|party2=Democratic List of Franco-Muslim Independence|votes2=|seats2=|votes2_2=154385|seats2_2=3|totseats2=3
|party3=Progressive Independents|votes3=|seats3=|votes3_2=153764|seats3_2=2|totseats3=2
|party4=[[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Republican Independents]]|votes4=|seats4=|votes4_2=109583|seats4_2=3|totseats4=3
|party5=[[Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto]]|votes5=|seats5=|votes5_2=81977|seats5_2=0|totseats5=0
|party6=[[Algerian Communist Party|Communists]]–Democratic Union for Progress and Freedom|votes6=77609|seats6=2|votes6_2=|seats6_2=|totseats6=2
|party7=[[Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties]]|votes7=|seats7=|votes7_2=76828|seats7_2=0|totseats7=0|sc7=
|party8=Union of Independents–[[Rally of the French People|RPF]]|votes8=72202|seats8=4|votes8_2=|seats8_2=|totseats8=4|sc8=
|party9=[[Rally of the French People]]|votes9=44873|seats9=2|votes9_2=|seats9_2=|totseats9=2|sc9=
|party10=Republican Union|votes10=1684|seats10=0|votes10_2=37086|seats10_2=1|totseats10=1
|party11=[[French Section of the Workers' International]]|votes11=37726|seats11=1|votes11_2=|seats11_2=|totseats11=1
|party12=Republican Union–[[Rally of Republican Lefts]]|votes12=31942|seats12=2|votes12_2=|seats12_2=|totseats12=2|sc12=
|party13=Democratic Union|votes13=|seats13=|votes13_2=31892|seats13_2=1|totseats13=1|sc13=
|party14=National Union and Independent Republicans|votes14=31067|seats14=1|votes14_2=|seats14_2=|totseats14=1|sc14=
|party15=[[Algerian Union]]|votes15=29518|seats15=1|votes15_2=|seats15_2=|totseats15=1|sc15=
|party16=[[Algerian Communist Party]]|votes16=|seats16=|votes16_2=26890|seats16_2=0|totseats16=0|sc16=
|party17=Independents, Peasants, National Republicans–RS|votes17=16548|seats17=1|votes17_2=|seats17_2=|totseats17=1|sc17=
|party18=Independent French|votes18=14544|seats18=1|votes18_2=|seats18_2=|totseats18=1|sc18=
|party19=Union of Republican Independents and Social Progress|votes19=|seats19=|votes19_2=9542|seats19_2=0|totseats19=0|sc19=
|party20=National Group of Republican Democrats–[[Popular Republican Movement|MRP]]|votes20=6583|seats20=0|votes20_2=|seats20_2=|totseats20=0|sc20=
|party22=Rally for Independent French|votes22=1342|seats22=0|votes22_2=|seats22_2=|totseats22=0|sc22=
|party23=Rally of Algerian Population|votes23=761|seats23=0|votes23_2=|seats23_2=|totseats23=0|sc23=
|party24=Others|votes24=2713|seats24=0|votes24_2=392|seats24_2=|totseats24=0|sc24=
|party25=Independents|votes25=|seats25=|votes25_2=12|seats25_2=0|totseats25=0|sc25=
|invalid=7265|invalid2=5588
|electorate=540348|electorate2=1406882
|source=[https://books.google.com/books?id=nlG9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA437 Sternberger ''et al''.]
}}

=== Alger ===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
!rowspan=2|Party
!colspan=3|First college
!colspan=3|Second college
!rowspan=2|Total<br />seats
|-
!Votes
!%
!Seats
!Votes
!%
!Seats
|-
|align=left| Union algérienne|| 29,727|| ||1 ||- ||- || 0|| 1
|-
|align=left| Union list of Independents and of the [[Rally of the French People]]|| 72,132||47.2% ||4 ||- ||- || 0|| 4
|-
|align=left|[[Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties]]|| -|| -||0||31,225 ||10.6% ||0||0
|-
|align=left|[[Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto]]||- || -||0||13,204 ||4.5% ||0||0
|-
|align=left|[[French Section of the Workers' International]]|| || ||0 || || ||0|| 
|-
|align=left|Liste communiste et d’union démocratique ([[Algerian Communist Party]])||31,714   ||20.7%  ||1 || || ||0||1
|-
|align=left|Concorde et entente républicaine || -|| -|| -||231,769 || ||5||5 
|-
|align=left|'''Total'''||153,017 || ||'''6'''|| 295,640|| ||'''5'''||'''11'''
|-
|align=left|'''Registered voters'''|| 228,101||- ||-|| 453,075||- ||-||-
|-
|align=left colspan=8| Sources: Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
|}

'''First College'''
* [[Adolphe Aumeran]] (1887–1980) Union algérienne ([[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Républicains indépendants]])<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=275 Adolphe Aumeran], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Georges Blachette]] (1900–1980) Union list of Independents and of the [[Rally of the French People]] ([[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Républicains indépendants]])<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=838 Georges Blachette], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Paulin Colonna d'Istria]] (1905–1982) Union list of Independents and of the [[Rally of the French People]] ([[Rally of the French People]]) until 27 November 1951<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=1921 Paulin Colonna d'Istria], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
** replaced by [[Jacques Chevallier (politician)|Jacques Chevallier]] [[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Républicains indépendants]] from 27 January 1952
* [[Pierre Fayet]] (1887–1977) [[Algerian Communist Party]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=2942 Pierre Fayet], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Marcel Paternot]] (1912–1993) Union list of Independents and of the [[Rally of the French People]]  ([[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Républicains indépendants]])<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=5709 Marcel Paternot], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Marcel Ribère]] (1900–1966) Union list of Independents and of the [[Rally of the French People]] ([[Rally of the French People]])<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6718 Marcel Ribère], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>

'''Second College'''
* [[Ahmed Aït-Ali]] (1886–1962) [[Popular Republican Movement]] (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=59 Ahmed Aït-Ali], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Abderrahmane Bentounès]] (1913–2010) ([[French Section of the Workers' International]] in 1946-51) [[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Centre républicain d'action paysanne et sociale et des démocrates indépendants]] (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=641 Abderrahmane Bentounès], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Ali Ben Lakhdar Brahimi]] (1911–1976) [[French Section of the Workers' International]] (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=1168 Ali Ben Lakhdar Brahimi], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Menouar Saïah]] (1905–1982) (former senator, 1948–1951) [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]] (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6208 Menouar Saïah], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Amar Smaïl]] (1901–1967) [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]] (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6865 Amar Smaïl], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>

=== Constantine ===

==== First College====
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
!List
!Votes
!%
!Seats
|-
|align=left|liste d'Union républicaine et de Rassemblement des gauches républicaines<br /><small>René Mayer<br />Paul Pantaloni</small>||align=left| 31,942|| 39%|| 2
|-
|align=left|liste de Rassemblement des gauches républicaines (RGR) et indépendants français<br /><small>Jules Valle</small>||align=left| ||17.7% || 1
|-
|align=left|[[Rally of the French People]]<br /><small>Léon Haumesser</small>||align=left|14,284 ||17.4% ||1
|-
|align=left|Rassemblement des populations algériennes||align=left| || ||0
|-
|align=left |'''Total'''||'''81,959'''|| 100%|| '''4'''
|}
* [[Léon Haumesser]] (1903–1991) [[Rally of the French People]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=3764 Léon Haumesser], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[René Mayer]] (1895–1972)(Minister of Justice) [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]] (elected on the [[Rally of Republican Lefts]] list)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=5138 René Mayer], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Paul Pantaloni]] (1884–1973) [[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Républicains indépendants]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=5669 Paul Pantaloni], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Jules Valle]] (1894–1965)(Senator 1948-1951) Français indépendants<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=7206 Jules Valle], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>

==== Second College====
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
!rowspan=2|Party
!colspan=3|First district
!colspan=3|Second district
!colspan=3|Third district
!rowspan=2|Total<br />seats
|-
!Votes
!%
!Seats
!Votes
!%
!Seats
!Votes
!%
!Seats
|-
|align=left| Indépendants progressistes || 153,729 || 91,7%||  2||-||-||-||-||-||- || 2
|-
|align=left| Républicains indépendants || - ||-|| - || 109,731 ||74.5% || 3||-||-||- || 3
|-
|align=left| Union démocratique (MRP) || - ||-|| - || - || || -|| || 31%|| 1 || 1
|-
|align=left| Union républicaine (RGR) || - ||-|| - || - || -|| - || ||36% ||1 || 1
|-
|align=left|[[Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties]]|| || ||0|| ||  || 0 ||  ||  || 0||0 
|-
|align=left|[[Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto]]|| || ||0|| ||  ||0|| 27,552 ||26,6% ||0 ||0
|-
|align=left|'''Total'''||167,632||100% ||'''2'''||147,232  ||100% || '''3'''|| 103,411  ||100% ||'''2''' || '''7'''
|-
|align=left|'''Registered voters'''||  ||- ||-||219,809  ||- ||-|| 183,507||-||-||-
|-
|align=left colspan=11| Sources: Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
|}
First district
* [[Mohamed Bengana]] (1914–1996) [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=622 Mohamed Bengana], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Abdelkader Cadi]] (1904–1955) [[Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance]] (deceased on 2 January 1955)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=1348 Abdelkader Cadi], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
** replaced through a by-election on 13 March 1955<ref>elected at the second round with 53,868 votes on 96,981; more than 50% of the registered voters did not vote<!--"Les 13 et 27 mars 1955, une élection partielle est organisée dans la 1re circonscription du département de Constantine (deuxième collège), pour le remplacement d'Abdelkader Cadi, décédé. Des instructions précises sont alors adressées par le ministre de l'intérieur et le gouverneur général afin que le scrutin se déroule librement et sans incident. Cependant, plus de la moitié des électeurs inscrits ne vont pas aux urnes. Ali Cadi, candidat indépendant progressiste, est élu au second tour, par 53 868 voix (sur 96 981 suffrages exprimés), contre 40 126 voix au candidat M.R.P. Benchenouff, et 2 987 voix au candidat communiste Lamiani. Inscrit au groupe parlementaire U.D.S.R., il est nommé membre de la Commission de l'intérieur."--></ref> by his brother [[Ali Cadi]] (1899–1963) [[Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance]] (resigns on 8 November 1955)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=1349 Ali Cadi], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>

Second district
* [[Mostefa Benbahmed]] (1899–1978) [[French Section of the Workers' International]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=611 Mostefa Benbahmed], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Mohamed Salah Bendjelloul]] (1893–1985) [[Rally of the French People]] - ARS<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=615 Mohamed Bendjelloul], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Youcef Kessous]] (1894–1952) [[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Républicains indépendants]] (deceased on 1 June 1952)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=4139 Youcef Kessous], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
** replaced on 13 July 1952 through a by-election (elected with 86% of the votes) by [[Amar Naroun]] (1906–1988) [[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Républicains indépendants]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=5508 Amar Naroun], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>

Third district
* [[Allaoua Ben Aly Chérif]] (1895–1976) [[Popular Republican Movement]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=600 Allaoua Ben Aly Chérif], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Abdelmadjid Ourabah]] (1905–1967)(Senator 1946-1951) [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=5633 Abdelmadjid Ourabah], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>

=== Oran ===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
!rowspan=2|Party
!colspan=3|First college
!colspan=3|Second college
!rowspan=2|Total<br />seats
|-
!Votes
!%
!Seats
!Votes
!%
!Seats
|-
|align=left| Liste de réconciliation républicaine et de sauvegarde de l’Algérie française (Independents and Radicals)|| ||12.3% ||1 || || || 0||1 
|-
|align=left| [[Rally of the French People]]||32,385 ||22.8% ||1 || || || 0|| 1
|-
|align=left|[[Rally of Republican Lefts]]|| || ||0 ||  || ||0||0
|-
|align=left|List of Republican Democrats ([[Popular Republican Movement]])|| || ||0 ||  || ||0||0
|-
|align=left|[[Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties]]|| || ||0||  || ||0||0
|-
|align=left|[[Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto]]|| || ||0 ||  || ||0||0
|-
|align=left|[[French Section of the Workers' International]]|| || || 1|| || ||0||1 
|-
|align=left|Liste communiste et d’union démocratique ([[Algerian Communist Party]])||134,136 ||26,5% ||1|| || ||0||1
|-
|align=left|Liste démocratique indépendante d'Union franco-musulmane ||-||- ||- ||154,385 ||77% ||3 || 3
|-
|align=left|[[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Centre républicain d'action paysanne et sociale et des démocrates indépendants]] ||23,210 ||17.3% ||1 || || || 0|| 1
|-
|align=left|'''Total'''|| 134,136||100% ||'''5'''||200,364 ||100% ||'''3'''||'''8'''
|-
|align=left|'''Registered voters'''|| 198,098|| || ||  ||  || || 
|-
|align=left colspan=8| Sources: Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly
|}

'''First College'''
* [[Henri Fouques-Duparc (politician)|Henri Fouques-Duparc]] (1903–1976)(senator in 1948-1951) [[Rally of the French People]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=3083 Henri Fouques-Duparc], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[François Quilici]] (1905–1977) [[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Républicains indépendants]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6558 François Quilici], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Maurice Rabier]] (1907–1999) [[French Section of the Workers' International]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6568 Maurice Rabier], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Roger de Saivre]] (1908–1964) [[National Centre of Independents and Peasants|Centre républicain d'action paysanne et sociale et des démocrates indépendants]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6239 Roger de Saivre], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Alice Sportisse Gomez-Nadal]] (1909–1996) [[Algerian Communist Party]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6898 Alice Sportisse Gomez-Nadal], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>

'''Second College'''
* [[Djilali Hakiki]] (1907–1962) [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=3728 Djilali Hakiki], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Ahmed Mekki-Bezzeghoud]] (1883–1953) [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]] (deceased on 23 July 1953)<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=5166 Ahmed Mekki-Bezzeghoud], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
** replaced by [[Chérif Sid Cara]] ([[:fr:Chérif Sid Cara|fr]])(1902–1999)(Senator in 1946-1953, Secretary of State in 1957-1958) [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]] at a by-election on 20 September 1953<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6828 Chérif Sid Cara], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>
* [[Djelloul Ould Kadi]] ((1920–2000)) [[Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance]]<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=5632 Djelloul Ould Kadi], Biographies of former deputies, website of the French National Assembly</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
*[[1951 French legislative election]]
*[[French legislative election, 1951 (Guinea)]]
* (on the Wikipedia in French) [[:fr:Liste des députés de l'Algérie française|Liste des députés de l'Algérie française]]

{{Algerian elections}}
{{French elections}}

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