1945 French legislative election in Chad–Ubangi-Shari

none 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,Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, p2464 de 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.Edward Mortimer (1969) France and the Africans 1944–1960: A political history, Faber, p65 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 René Malbrant Chadian Democratic Union–UDSR 666 Marcel Tournade French Section of the Workers' International 110 Georges Nègre 40 Baptiste Bannister 17 76 1361 Sternberger et al.,https://books.google.com/books?id=nlG9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2464 Afrika: Politische Organisation und Repräsentation in Afrika Dolf Sternberger Bernhard Vogel Dieter Nohlen Klaus Landfried November 18, 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG 978-3-11-090480-2 Google Books National AssemblyNational Assembly Second College Guy Baucheron de Boissoudy fr Chadian Democratic Union–UDSR 3045 Aristide Issembé French Communist Party 1162 Pierre Indo French Section of the Workers' International 656 Sekou Diarra 186 Frédéric Granier 134 58 6858 Sternberger et al. References Chad French Chad French Chad Category:French elections in Chad Category:French elections in Ubangi-Shari