Member State of the Arab League Elections to the French National Assembly were held in Mauritania on 17 June 1951.
Mauritania had one seat in the Assembly, which was won by Sidi el-Mokhtar N'Diaye, a member of the Mauritanian Progressive Union.
[1] He defeated the incumbent, Horma Ould Babana, who had been elected as a member of the French Section of the Workers' International in the last election, but had since gone on to leave the SFIO and form his own party, the Mauritanian Entente.
[2] The UPM was a conservative and regionally based organisation that had been expressly formed in order to oppose Babana's Mauritanian Entente.
[2] The party was supported by the colonial administration and its allies, the traditional Maure secular and clerical ruling classes, who feared the Mauritanian Entente's "socialist" program.