Colonial Council elections were held in
French Cochinchina on 16 April 1939.
Electoral system
The 24 members of the Colonial Council consisted of ten members elected by French citizens, ten by Vietnamese who were classed as French subjects, two by the Chamber of Commerce and two by the Chamber of Agriculture.
Results
Amongst the Vietnamese electorate, three
Trotskyist candidates
Tạ Thu Thâu
Tạ Thu Thâu (1906–1945) in the 1930s was the principal representative of Trotskyism in Vietnam and, in colonial Cochinchina, of left opposition to the Indochinese Communist Party (PCI) of Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh). He joined to Left Oppos ...
,
Tran Van Thach
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and
Phan Văn Hùm Phan Văn Hùm (9 April 1902 – 1946) was a Vietnamese journalist, philosopher and revolutionary in French colonial Cochinchina who, from 1930, participated in the Trotskyist left opposition to the Communist Party of Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh).
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received around 80% of the vote; the pro-French
Constitutionalist Party received 15% and
Stalinists
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candidates 1%.
[Allen Myers (2004) ''The Vietnamese Revolution and Its Leadership'', Resistance Books, p32]
Aftermath
The defeat of the Stalinism led to the
Indochinese Communist Party splitting, with
Duong Bach Mai continuing to lead the official faction of the party and
Nguyen Van Tao
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By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this s ...
heading a breakaway.
[Frank N Trager (1959) ''Marxism in Southeast Asia: A Study of Four Countries, Volume 7'', Stanford University Press, p143]
References
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1939 elections in Asia