1910 French legislative election

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1910 French legislative election
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  1906 24 April 1910 (first round)
8 May 1910 (second round)
1914  

All 587 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
294 seats needed for a majority
Registered11,426,736
Turnout77.41%
 Majority partyMinority party
  Emile Combes 1913.jpg Jean Jaures (1).jpg
Leader Émile Combes Jean Jaurès
Party PRV SFIO
Seats won14875
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 16Increase2.svg 21
Popular vote1,727,0641,110,561
Percentage20.45%13.15%
SwingDecrease2.svg 8.08ppIncrease2.svg 2.96pp

Prime Minister before election

Aristide Briand
Independent Socialist

Elected Prime Minister

Aristide Briand
Independent Socialist

Voters going to the polls in Guadeloupe, 1910. Guerault richard.jpg
Voters going to the polls in Guadeloupe, 1910.

Legislative elections were held in France on 24 April and 8 May 1910. The elections resulted in a clear victory for the forces of electoral reform and the governing coalition of Radicals, socialist independents and Left Republicans, allowing the incumbent premier Aristide Briand to form his second government  [ fr ].

Contents

Briand, himself an Independent Socialist, would unite his small, loosely-aligned, pro-government faction of socialists and radicals into the Republican-Socialist Party in 1911.

Results

Chambre des Deputes 1910.svg
PartyVotes%Seats
Radical Socialists 1,727,06420.45148
Conservatives  [ fr ]1,602,20918.9786
Republican Union 1,472,44217.43116
French Section of the Workers' International 1,110,56113.1575
Republican Left 1,018,70412.0670
Independent Radicals 966,40711.4460
Independent Socialists 345,2024.0925
Popular Liberal Action 153,2311.815
Others49,9530.592
Total8,445,773100.00587
Valid votes8,445,77395.49
Invalid/blank votes399,2054.51
Total votes8,844,978100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,426,73677.41
Source: Mackie & Rose, [1] France Politique

Sources

References

  1. Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130