Colonial Council elections were held in French Cochinchina on 16 April 1939.
[1] The 24 members of the Cochinchina Colonial Council [vi] 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.
[2] Amongst the Vietnamese electorate, three Trotskyist candidates Tạ Thu Thâu, Trần Văn Thạch and Phan Văn Hùm received around 80% of the vote;[3] the pro-French Indochinese Constitutionalist Party [vi] received 15% and Stalinists candidates 1%.
[4] The defeat of the Stalinism led to the Indochinese Communist Party splitting, with Dương Bạch Mai [vi] continuing to lead the official faction of the party and Nguyễn Văn Tạo [vi] heading a breakaway.
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