The first electoral college comprised all French citizens, some 500,000 eligibles (in 1954), plus a number of "meritorious" Muslims; these included recipients of higher education, civil servants, bachagas and caids, holders of the Legion of Honour and distinguished anciens combattants, and they then numbered 60,000. The second college embraced the eligible voters of all the remaining nine million Muslims.

XREF: Connects to colonial divide-and-rule strategies used across French territories, where limited franchises were granted to assimilated elites.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 245