One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslim abstention voided the referendum’s Algerian mandate while Europeans voted no.; Algeria’s separate electoral colleges made 60,000 Muslims equal to 500,000 French; Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 187 (+3 more)

Related

• Algeria’s separate electoral colleges made 60,000 Muslims equal to 500,000 French (similarity 0.94)
• Muslim abstention voided the referendum’s Algerian mandate while Europeans voted no. (similarity 0.89)
• Algerians voted overwhelmingly for independence while European settlers abstained (similarity 0.83)
• Algerians fighting for France outnumbered those fighting for independence (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system (similarity 0.79)
• Algerians voted heavily for de Gaulle despite FLN abstention orders (similarity 0.78)