1959 French Senate election

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The first senatorial elections of the Fifth Republic were held in France on April 26, 1959.[1]

Context[]

The Senate was created by constitution of the Fifth Republic to replace Council of the Republic. This election depend largely of the results of 1959 municipal elections.

Results[]

Group Ideology Seats Percentage
  Independent Republicans (RI) Liberalism, Right-wing 70 22,6 %
  Democratic Left (GD) Radicalism, Right-wing, Left-wing 66 21,3%
  Socialist (SOC) Socialism, Left-wing 61 19,7%
  Union for the New Republic (UNR) Gaullism, Right-wing 37 12,0%
  (MRP) Christian democracy, Right-wing 34 11,0%
  (CNIP) Conservatism, Right-wing 20 6,5%
  Communist (COM) Communism, Left-wing 14 4,5%
  Non-Registered (NI) None 7 2,3%
Total: 309 100,0 %

Senate Presidency[]

On April 28, 1959, Gaston Monnerville a was elected president of the Senate. Monnerville has been the highest-ranking black politician in French history, and if he was a candidate for reelection in 1968, he could have become the first black president of France the next year when President Pompidou dies.[2]

List of senators elected by region[]

Senator Group District Source
Louis Jung   [1]
  [2]
  [3]
  [4]
  UNR [5]
  UNR [6]
  UNR [7]
  SOC [8]
[3]   GD [9]
  [10]
Georges Portmann   RI [11]
  [12]
  [13]
  SOC [14]
  SOC [15]
Jacques Bordeneuve   GD [16]
  GD [17]
Guy Petit   RI [18]
  [19]
  RI [20]
Auvergne
  SOC [21]
  SOC [22]
  [23]
  [24]
  RI [25]
  [26]
  SOC [27]
  SOC [28]
  SOC [29]
  RI [30]
  RI [31]
Jean-Marie Louvel   [32]
  RI [33]
  RI [34]
  RI [35]
  RI [36]
  RI [37]
Burgundy
Roger Duchet   RI [38]
  RI [39]
François Mitterrand   GD [40]
  GD [41]
  SOC [42]
  RI [43]
  GD [44]
[4]   RI [45]
  RI [46]
  GD [47]
  RI [48]
  [49]
  RI [50]
  [51]
  [52]
André Colin   [53]
  UNR [54]
  UNR [55]
  [56]
  RI [57]
  UNR [58]
  [59]
Centre
 
 
  GD [60]
  GD [61]
  SOC [62]
  RI [63]
  UNR [64]
Edgar Faure   GD [65]
  GD [66]
  RI [67]
  GD [68]

References[]

  1. ^ Élections sénatoriales 1959
  2. ^ On a failli avoir un président noir en France...[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ election annulled by the Constitutional Council
  4. ^ dies two months later and was replaced by
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