Editing History of Senegal (section)

===List of deputies elected to the French Parliament===

'''The [[French Second Republic]]''':
*[[Barthélémy Durand Valantin]] 1848–1850 (Mixed race)
*Vacant 1850–1852
*Abolished 1852–1871
[[File:Blaise Diagne-Dakar-1918.jpg|thumb|Arrival of [[Blaise Diagne]], Deputy for Senegal, High Commissioner of the Government for the recruitment of black troops in [[Dakar]] in March 1918]]

'''The [[French Third Republic]]''':
*[[Jean-Baptiste Lafon de Fongauffier]] 1871–1876 (Mixed race)
*Abolished 1876–1879
*[[Alfred Gasconi]] 1879–1889 (Mixed race)
*[[Aristide Vallon]] 1889–1893
*[[Jules Couchard]] 1893–1898
*[[Hector D'Agoult]] 1898–1902
*[[François Carpot]] 1902–1914 (Mixed race)
*[[Blaise Diagne]] 1914–1934 (African)
*[[Galandou Diouf]] 1934–1940 (African)

[[File:Flag of Senegal (1958–1959).svg|thumb|Flag of French Senegal (1958–1959)]]

'''1945–1959''':
*[[Amadou Lamine-Guèye|Amadou Lamine Guèye]] 1945–1951<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=4314 "Amadou Lamine-Gueye"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923091150/http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=4314 |date=23 September 2011 }}, Assemblée nationale.</ref> (African)
*[[Léopold Sedar Senghor]] 1945–1959<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6385 "Léopold Sédar Senghor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119171523/http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=6385 |date=19 January 2012 }}, Assemblée nationale.</ref> (African)
*[[Abbas Guèye]] 1951–1955<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=3642 "Abbas Gueye"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920230451/http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=3642 |date=20 September 2011 }}, Assemblée nationale.</ref> (African)
*[[Mamadou Dia]] 1956–1959<ref>[http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=2495 "Mamadou Dia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013055003/http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=2495 |date=13 October 2012 }}, Assemblée nationale.</ref> (African)

Following the 1945 elections to the Constituent Assembly in France, which were held with a very limited franchise, the French authorities gradually extended the franchise until—in November 1955—the principle of [[universal suffrage]] was passed into law and implemented the following year.  The first electoral contests held under universal suffrage were the municipal elections of November 1956. The first national contest was the 31 March 1957 election of the Territorial Assembly.<ref>*Chafer, Tony. ''The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization'', Berg (2002), p. 145. {{ISBN|1-85973-557-6}}</ref>