Editing Talk:1958 French constitutional referendum (section)

==Dubious==
[http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jopdf/common/jo_pdf.jsp?numJO=0&dateJO=19581005&numTexte=&pageDebut=09177&pageFin= This is the official tally] for this referendum, and it says 31066502 yes, 5419749 no. It seems that the Wikipedia article considers the sums of the votes for France and [[Guinea]], whereas Guinea was becoming independent. As far as I know, the votes from Guinea are not taken into account into scholarly commentaries on this vote. [[User:David.Monniaux|David.Monniaux]] ([[User talk:David.Monniaux|talk]]) 07:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

:If Guinea had voted "Yes" then I suspect it would have been included in the ''official'' totals.  But given earlier election results there, the "No" was probably not unexpected. At the time of the referendum it seems to have had the same status as other parts of [[French West Africa]] apart from French Togoland and French Cameroon. --[[User:Rumping|Rumping]] ([[User talk:Rumping|talk]]) 15:58, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

According to Anne Stevens in "Government and Politics of France" the figures are 85.14% yes, 14.85% no. This is a reliable source, I would suggest a change to these figures. Or at least someone fill in an explination on the page (i.e. give two sets of figures, on including Guinea, one not).  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/129.67.169.115|129.67.169.115]] ([[User talk:129.67.169.115|talk]]) 20:22, 19 January 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->