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Elections to the French National Assembly were held in Chad and Ubangi-Shari on 21 October 1945. The territories elected two seats to the Assembly via two electoral colleges. René Malbrant was elected from the first college and Guy Baucheron de Boissoudy [fr] in the second, both of whom were members of the Chadian Democratic Union.

Campaign

World War II had seen Chad become a territory whose primary political sentiment was loyalty to Charles de Gaulle; it had been recognised with numerous accolades for being the first territory to respond to his Appeal of 18 June, and had also been used as a base for Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque's desert campaign. As a result, the Gaullist Chadian Democratic Union found it easy to recruit African members, despite its conservative views on African rights. The party put up European candidates for both college seats; Malbrant was a vet and de Boissoudy a colonel.

Results

First College

CandidatePartyVotes%
René MalbrantChadian Democratic Union–UDSR66679.95
Marcel TournadeFrench Section of the Workers' International11013.21
Georges Nègre404.80
Baptiste Bannister172.04
Total833100.00
Valid votes83391.64
Invalid/blank votes768.36
Total votes909100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,36166.79
Source: Sternberger et al., National Assembly

Second College

CandidatePartyVotes%
Guy Baucheron de Boissoudy [fr]Chadian Democratic Union–UDSR3,04558.75
Aristide IssembéFrench Communist Party1,16222.42
Pierre IndoFrench Section of the Workers' International65612.66
Sekou Diarra1863.59
Frédéric Granier1342.59
Total5,183100.00
Valid votes5,18398.89
Invalid/blank votes581.11
Total votes5,241100.00
Registered voters/turnout6,85876.42
Source: Sternberger et al.

References

  1. Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p2464 (in German)
  2. ^ Edward Mortimer (1969) France and the Africans 1944–1960: A political history, Faber, p65
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