1924 French legislative election

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1924 French legislative election
French Third Republic
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All 574 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout83.03%
Party Leader % Seats +/–
URD Auguste Isaac 35.35 204 +3
SFIO Léon Blum 20.10 104 +37
PRSPRS Édouard Herriot 17.86 162 +39
RIGR Raymond Poincaré 11.72 53 −77
PCF Louis Sellier [fr] 9.82 26 New
DVD 4.16 25 −63
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Raymond Poincaré
Democratic Alliance
Édouard Herriot
Radical-Socialist Party

Legislative elections were held in France on 11 and 25 May 1924.[1] They resulted in a victory for the left-wing Cartel des Gauches, an alliance of Radicals and Socialists, which governed until July 1926 under the premierships of Édouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Democratic and Republican Union3,190,83135.35204
French Section of the Workers' International1,814,00020.10104
Radical Socialist PartyRepublican-Socialist Party1,612,58117.86162
Independent RadicalsRepublican Left1,058,29311.7253
French Communist Party885,9939.8226
Conservatives and independents375,8064.1625
Other parties89,3330.990
Total9,026,837100.00574
Valid votes9,026,83798.21
Invalid/blank votes164,9721.79
Total votes9,191,809100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,070,36083.03
Source: Mackie & Rose,[2] Nohlen & Stöver,[3] France Politique

References

  1. ^ Sharp, Walter R. (1924). "The French Elections". American Political Science Review. 18 (3): 533–540. doi:10.2307/1944175. ISSN 0003-0554.
  2. ^ Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1982) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130
  3. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p692 ISBN 9783832956097