Bảo Đại
On 26 October Ngô Đình Diệm became President and Commander-in-Chief after defeating Bảo Đại in the referendum about the future form of government. The referendum, however, seemed less than ideally honest; Diệm's overall margin over Bảo Đại was 98.2 percent, and Diệm received 605,000 votes from the 405,000 registered voters of Saigon.