1954 Algerian Assembly Election
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were held in Algeria on 31 January and 6 February 1954.
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Like other post-1948 elections in French Algeria, it was rigged by the authorities to ensure the defeat of Algerian nationalists.
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Electoral system

The Assembly was elected by two colleges, each of which elected 60 seats. The First College consisted of Europeans and
évolué In the Belgian and French colonial empires, an (, 'evolved one' or 'developed one') was an African who had been Europeanised through education and assimilation and had accepted European values and patterns of behavior. spoke French and foll ...
s, whilst the Second College was composed of the remainder of the Algerian population.


Results


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Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...