 As for the Algerian Assembly elected in 1948 and for the previous French legislative elections in 1945 and 1946, there were two electoral colleges, one for the 1.5 million "French citizens" (Europeans, plus the Algerian Jews since Crémieux Decree, and a few thousand Algerian Muslims who had been granted this statute at their request), and one for 8 million people ruled by the Indigénat statute.Each college elected 15 deputies.The 1951 legislative elections among the Muslim College, like the Algerian Assembly election of 1948, were rigged by the colonial administration to the detriment of the three anticolonial parties, the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties, the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto and the Algerian Communist Party.