Women voted in a French election for the first time as France chose a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution for a Fourth Republic.
The elections were won by an alliance of the French Communist Party, the Christian Democratic Popular Republican Movement and the Socialist French Section of the Workers' International.
A disaster for French conservatives, the coalition saw the Communists take the most votes, drawing 26.08% and taking 148 seats, followed by the Republican Movement taking 24.91% and 141 seats. The Socialists took 23.77% and 134 seats. The pre war far left, the Radicals, took a beating, as did all the conservative parties, given that they had supported the government of Petain.
Basically, all the parties that had not participated in prewar French politics came out on top, which resulted in an alliance, albeit one that was temporarily very much left wing. Socialist Guy Alcide Mollet became the Prime Minister, with Communist Maurice Thorez the deputy prime minister.
The Fourth Republic would last until 1958, having seen, in spite of its hard left origins, the French effort to retain Indochina and much of its efforts to retain Algeria.
In Luxembourg the Christian Social People's Party won the general election.
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