Elections to municipal councils in the 22 municipalities of

French India French India, formally the ( en, French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian Subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company. They were ''de ...

were held by universal direct suffrage on June 23, 1946. The National Democratic Front captured power in all 22 municipalities, winning 101 out of 122 municipal seats up for election.Neogy, Ajit K.
Decolonization of French India: Liberation Movement and Indo-French Relations, 1947-1954
'. Pondichéry: Institut français de Pondichéry, 1997. p. 24Manickam, M. and J. B. Prashant More.
Freedom movement in French India: the Mahe revolt of 1948
'. Tellicherry: Inst. for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, MESHAR, 2001. p. 93 Kamal Ghosh, a National Democratic Front leader, became mayor of

Chandernagore Chandannagar french: Chandernagor ), also known by its former name Chandernagore and French name Chandernagor, is a city in the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is headquarter of the Chandannagore subdivision and is part ...

.Antony, Francis Cyril.
Union Territory of Pondicherry
'. ondicherry Administration of the Union Territory of Pondicherry, 1982. p. 248

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