Algeria’s separate electoral colleges made 60,000 Muslims equal to 500,000 French

Evidence

Originally only the pied noir population enjoyed the right to vote for these representatives. Then came the creation of the double electoral college system; the first college consisting of all “French citizens”, plus a modest proportion of select Muslims, the number of which was augmented over regular intervals — though at a painfully slow rate; the second embracing the whole Muslim population. Each college (in 1946) could elect eight senators and fifteen deputies to the National Assembly. In effect this meant that one million Europeans had voting rights equal to those of over eight million Muslims. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 91 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 91; Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958

Related

• One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria (similarity 0.94)
• Muslim abstention voided the referendum’s Algerian mandate while Europeans voted no. (similarity 0.87)
• Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958 (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s independence had become irreversible by 1959 (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian integration would numerically swamp metropolitan France politically. (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians fighting for France outnumbered those fighting for independence (similarity 0.81)
• French settlers never exceeded thirteen percent of Algeria’s population (similarity 0.80)
• Integration would have demographically swamped metropolitan France (similarity 0.80)
• Integration was feasible in 1936 but a delusion by 1958 (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian integration was only ever workable before 1958 (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian Muslims earned roughly one-thirtieth of European earnings yet paid proportionally heavier taxes. (similarity 0.79)
• Electoral fraud destroyed Muslim trust in French promises of free elections. (similarity 0.78)
• By 1917 only a fifth of Algeria’s non-Muslim settlers were French-born. (similarity 0.78)
• Both Muslims and pieds noirs read integration through self-serving demographic math. (similarity 0.78)
• Algerians voted overwhelmingly for independence while European settlers abstained (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria #expands (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 91
• Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958 #corroborates (0.70)