Algerians voted overwhelmingly for independence while European settlers abstained

Evidence

On 1 July Algeria held its own referendum on the Evian Agreements; 5,993,754 voted oui against 16,478 nons; ten per cent, representing chiefly the pieds noirs, abstained. Two days later President de Gaulle recognised Algerian independence. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1615

Categorization

• XREF: The 10% pied noir abstention prefigures the mass exodus that follows — ties back to the exodus theme of this chapter. — connects to: Muslim abstention voided the referendum’s Algerian mandate while Europeans voted no.; Algerians ratified independence almost unanimously; The European settler minority is the central obstacle to ending the Algerian war (+6 more)

Related

• Muslim abstention voided the referendum’s Algerian mandate while Europeans voted no. (similarity 0.93)
• Algerians ratified independence almost unanimously (similarity 0.92)
• Algerians voted heavily for de Gaulle despite FLN abstention orders (similarity 0.89)
• Algeria’s independence had become irreversible by 1959 (similarity 0.88)
• One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria (similarity 0.83)
• Algerians fighting for France outnumbered those fighting for independence (similarity 0.82)
• French voters ratified Evian out of war-weariness, not conviction (similarity 0.81)
• France’s 90% yes vote on Evian expressed exhaustion, not endorsement (similarity 0.80)
• Even the architects of the Evian accords felt no satisfaction in them (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle won an 80 percent Yes vote in the September 1958 referendum (similarity 0.79)
• France’s 1947 statute for Algeria collapsed into compromise and left Muslim deputies abstaining (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle privately viewed Evian as merely an honourable exit (similarity 0.78)
• Algeria’s separate electoral colleges made 60,000 Muslims equal to 500,000 French (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria #complicates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 91
• Algerians read the retreat of colonialism from settler fear and anger #expands (0.60)