1959 French Senate election

The first

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

Context

The

Council of the Republic. This election depend largely of the results of 1959 municipal elections

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 died.^[2]

List of senators elected by region

Senator		District	Source
Alsace
Louis Jung	RP	Bas-Rhin	[1]
Michel Kauffmann	RP	Bas-Rhin	[2]
Michel Kistler	RP	Bas-Rhin	[3]
Paul Wach	RP	Bas-Rhin	[4]
Paul-Jacques Kalb	UNR	Haut-Rhin	[5]
Eugène Ritzenthaler	UNR	Haut-Rhin	[6]
Modeste Zussy	UNR	Haut-Rhin	[7]
Aquitaine
Marcel Brégégère	SOC	Dordogne	[8]
Charles Sinsout^[3]	GD	Dordogne	[9]
Marc Pauzet	CNIP	Gironde	[10]
Georges Portmann	RI	Gironde	[11]
Max Monichon	CNIP	Gironde	[12]
Raymond Brun	CNIP	Gironde	[13]
Jean-Louis Fournier	SOC	Landes	[14]
Gérard Minvielle	SOC	Landes	[15]
Jacques Bordeneuve	GD	Lot-et-Garonne	[16]
Étienne Restat	GD	Lot-et-Garonne	[17]
Guy Petit	RI	Basses-Pyrénées	[18]
Jean Errecart	RP	Basses-Pyrénées	[19]
Jean-Louis Tinaud	RI	Basses-Pyrénées	[20]
Auvergne
Fernand Auberger	SOC	Allier	[21]
Georges Rougeron	SOC	Allier	[22]
Hector Peschaud	CNIP	Cantal	[23]
Paul Piales	CNIP	Cantal	[24]
Robert Bouvard	RI	Haute-Loire	[25]
Jean De Lachomette	CNIP	Haute-Loire	[26]
Michel Champleboux	SOC	Puy-de-Dôme	[27]
Francis Dassaud	SOC	Puy-de-Dôme	[28]
Gabriel Montpied	SOC	Puy-de-Dôme	[29]
Lower Normandy
Louis Andre	RI	Calvados	[30]
Jacques Descours-Desacres	RI	Calvados	[31]
Jean-Marie Louvel	RP	Calvados	[32]
Henri Cornat	RI	Manche	[33]
Léon Jozeau-Marigne	RI	Manche	[34]
Michel Yver	RI	Manche	[35]
Étienne Le Sassier-Boisauné	RI	Orne	[36]
Paul Pelleray	RI	Orne	[37]
Burgundy
Roger Duchet	RI	Côte-d'Or	[38]
Étienne Viallanes	RI	Côte-d'Or	[39]
François Mitterrand	GD	Nièvre	[40]
Jacques Gadoin	GD	Nièvre	[41]
Roger Lagrange	SOC	Saône-et-Loire	[42]
Marcel Legros	RI	Saône-et-Loire	[43]
Jules Pinsard	GD	Saône-et-Loire	[44]
Philippe de Raincourt^[4]	RI	Yonne	[45]
André Plait	RI	Yonne	[46]
Brittany
André Cornu	GD	Côtes du Nord	[47]
Jean de Bagneux	RI	Côtes du Nord	[48]
Bernard Lemarié	RP	Côtes du Nord	[49]
Jean Fichoux	RI	Finistère	[50]
Yves Hamon	RP	Finistère	[51]
André Monteil	RP	Finistère	[52]
André Colin	RP	Finistère	[53]
Roger du Halgouët	UNR	Ille-et-Vilaine	[54]
Yves Estève	UNR	Ille-et-Vilaine	[55]
Jean Noury	RP	Ille-et-Vilaine	[56]
Marcel Lambert	RI	Morbihan	[57]
Victor Golvan	UNR	Morbihan	[58]
Joseph Yvon	RP	Morbihan	[59]
Centre

Champagne-Ardenne

Corsica
Jean-Paul de Rocca-Serra	GD	Corsica	[60]
Jacques Faggianelli	GD	Corsica	[61]
Franche-Comté
Marcel Boulangé	SOC	Territoire de Belfort	[62]
Jacques Henriet	RI	Doubs	[63]
Marcel Prélot	UNR	Doubs	[64]
Edgar Faure	GD	Jura	[65]
Charles Laurent-Thouverey	GD	Jura	[66]
Henri Pretre	RI	Haute-Saône	[67]
André Maroselli	GD	Haute-Saône	[68]

References

^ Élections sénatoriales 1959
^ On a failli avoir un président noir en France...
^ election annulled by the Constitutional Council
^ dies two months later and was replaced by Paul Guillaumot

[1] Élections sénatoriales 1959

[2] On a failli avoir un président noir en France...

[3] tion annulled by the Constitutional Council

[4] s two months later and was replaced by Paul Guillaumot

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[2]

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[4]

	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%
Popular Republican Movement (MRP)	Christian democracy, Right-wing	34	11,0%
Republican Centre of Rural and Social Action (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 %

1959 French Senate election

Context

Results

Senate Presidency

List of senators elected by region

References