A by-election to the

French National Assembly The National Assembly (french: link=no, italics=set, Assemblée nationale; ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known a ...

was held in French Dahomey and French Togoland on 10 February 1946.Jacques, Joseph, Pierre, Marie BERTHO
French National Assembly The by-election was required after the death of incumbent MP

Francis Aupiais Francis Aupiais (11 August 1877 – 14 December 1945) was a French Roman Catholic missionary, anthropologist, and writer. He was born in Saint-Père-en-Retz and studied at the Missions Africains de Lyon seminary. He was ordained a priest in 1902. ...

on 18 December 1945. Aupiais had been elected via the first college in October 1945.

Pierre Bertho Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

of the Popular Republican Movement was the only candidate, and was elected with 644 of the 818 votes cast.

Results

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Dahomey The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a region ...

1946 0 1946 in French Dahomey 1946 0 1946 in French Togoland By-elections to the National Assembly (France) February 1946 events in Africa