Territorial Assembly elections were held in French Upper Volta on 30 May 1948, with a second round on 20 June.Joseph-Roger de Benoist (1982) Afrique occidentale française de 1944 à 1960, p538 They were the first elections to the new Territorial Assembly, which had been created following the separation of Upper Volta from Ivory Coast the previous year.Lawrence Rupley, Lamissa Bangali & Boureima Diamitani (2013) Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso, Rowman & Littlefield, pxli
Electoral system The Territorial Assembly had 50 seats, with 10 elected by the First College (French citizens) and 40 by the Second College (non-French citizens).Virginia Thompson & Richard Adloff (1958) French West Africa, Stanford University Press, p56 The 1948 elections elected an additional 24 seats; six to the first college and 16 to the second.
Campaign Governor Albert Mouragues was accused of favouring the Voltaic Union over the African Democratic Rally-affiliated Entente Voltaïque (EV), with some commandants "using strong-arm methods" against the EV candidates, whilst a significant number of EV supporters were imprisoned.Thompson & Adloff, p175
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