1959 French Senate election
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The first senatorial elections of the Fifth Republic were held in France on April 26, 1959.[1]
Context
The Senate was created by constitution of the Fifth Republic to replace Council of the Republic. This election depend largely of the results of 1959 municipal elections.
Results
Group | 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 % |
Senate Presidency
On April 28, 1959, Gaston Monnerville a senator from Guyane was elected 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 | Group | District | Source | |
---|---|---|---|---|
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] | |
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] | |
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 | ||||
Jean-Paul de Rocca-Serra | GD | Corsica | [60] | |
Jacques Faggianelli | GD | Corsica | [61] | |
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] |