The French Communist Party (PCF) received a plurality of votes in voting for the National Assembly. They held 182 of 627 seats. The general makeup of the first National Assembly of the fourth republic was:
French Communist Party: 5,489,288, 28.59%, 166 seats.
Popular Republican Movement (Christian Democrats): 5,058,307 26.34%, 158 seats.
French Section of the Workers' International (Socialist Party): 3,431,954, 17.87% 90 seats.
Conservatives: 2,465,526, 12.84% 70 seats.
Radicals: 2,381,385, 12.40% 55 seats.
Gaullists: 312,632 1.63% 5 Seats.
Others: 63,979 0.33% 0 seats.
Clearly, this was a left wing National Assembly. It was the best election the PCF ever had. Interestingly, however, the party was part of a three party alliance, which included the Popular Republican Movement, which ad done nearly as well as it had. Charles De Gaulle had campaigned against the fourth republic and his backers form the Gaullist Union.
The first head of government would be a Socialist.
Nguyễn Văn Thinh,j the first President of Cochinchina, committed suicide after failing to be able to meet with the French Indochina Commissioner Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu.
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