1951 French legislative election in Algeria

Elections to the National Assembly of France were held in France, including Algeria, on 17 June 1951. There were 30 seats for Algeria out of 625 at the National Assembly.[1]

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 1.5 million "French citizens" (Europeans, plus the Algerian Jews since Crémieux Decree, and a few thousand Algerian Muslims who had been granted this statute at their request), and one for 8 million people ruled by the Indigénat statute. Each college elected 15 deputies.

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.[2] 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
Party	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total 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

Adolphe Aumeran (1887–1980) Union algérienne (Républicains indépendants)[3]
Georges Blachette (1900–1980) Union list of Independents and of the Rally of the French People (Républicains indépendants)[4]
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[5]
- replaced by Jacques Chevallier Républicains indépendants from 27 January 1952
Pierre Fayet (1887–1977) Algerian Communist Party[6]
Marcel Paternot (1912–1993) Union list of Independents and of the Rally of the French People (Républicains indépendants)[7]
Marcel Ribère (1900–1966) Union list of Independents and of the Rally of the French People (Rally of the French People)[8]

Second College

Ahmed Aït-Ali (1886–1962) Popular Republican Movement (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)[9]
Abderrahmane Bentounès (1913–2010) (French Section of the Workers' International in 1946-51) Centre républicain d'action paysanne et sociale et des démocrates indépendants (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)[10]
Ali Ben Lakhdar Brahimi (1911–1976) French Section of the Workers' International (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)[11]
Menouar Saïah (1905–1982) (former senator, 1948–1951) Radical Party (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)[12]
Amar Smaïl (1901–1967) Radical Party (elected on the Concorde et entente républicaine list)[13]

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
Total	81,959	100%	4

Léon Haumesser (1903–1991) Rally of the French People[14]
René Mayer (1895–1972)(Minister of Justice) Radical Party (elected on the Rally of Republican Lefts list)[15]
Paul Pantaloni (1884–1973) Républicains indépendants[16]
Jules Valle (1894–1965)(Senator 1948-1951) Français indépendants[17]

Second College

Party	First district			Second district			Third district			Total seats
Party	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total 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

First district

Mohamed Bengana (1914–1996) Radical Party[18]
Abdelkader Cadi (1904–1955) Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (deceased on 2 January 1955)[19]
- replaced through a by-election on 13 March 1955[20] by his brother Ali Cadi (1899–1963) Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (resigns on 8 November 1955)[21]

Second district

Mostefa Benbahmed (1899–1978) French Section of the Workers' International[22]
Mohamed Salah Bendjelloul (1893–1985) Rally of the French People - ARS[23]
Youcef Kessous (1894–1952) Républicains indépendants (deceased on 1 June 1952)[24]
- replaced on 13 July 1952 through a by-election (elected with 86% of the votes) by Amar Naroun (1906–1988) Républicains indépendants[25]

Third district

Allaoua Ben Aly Chérif (1895–1976) Popular Republican Movement[26]
Abdelmadjid Ourabah (1905–1967)(Senator 1946-1951) Radical Party[27]

Oran

Party	First college			Second college			Total seats
Party	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total 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