1914 French legislative election

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1914 French legislative election
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  1910 26 April and 10 May 1914 1919  

All 592 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
297 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Jos. Caillaux LCCN2014706163.tif Jean Jaures (1).jpg Alexandre Ribot 1913.jpg
Leader Joseph Caillaux Jean Jaurès Alexandre Ribot
Party PRV SFIO UR
Seats won14010396
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 8Increase2.svg 28Decrease2.svg 20
Popular vote1,530,1881,413,0441,588,075
Percentage18.15%16.76%18.84%
SwingDecrease2.svg 2.30ppIncrease2.svg 3.61ppDecrease2.svg 1.41pp

 Fourth partyFifth party
  Georges Clemenceau par Nadar.jpg Jacques Piou (Agence Meurisse, 1913) (cropped and adjusted).jpg
Leader Georges Clemenceau Jacques Piou
Party RI ALP
Seats won9673
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 36Increase2.svg 68
Popular vote1,399,8301,297,722
Percentage16.60%15.39
SwingDecrease2.svg 5.16ppIncrease2.svg 13.58pp

Prime Minister before election

Gaston Doumergue
RI

Elected Prime Minister

René Viviani
PRS

Legislative elections were held in France on 26 April and 10 May 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War I. The Radical Party, a radical and increasingly centre-right party, emerged as the largest party, though, with the outbreak of the First World War, many in the Chamber, ranging from Catholics to socialists, united to form the Union sacrée .

Contents

The elections saw 192 new members elected. [1]

Alexandre Ribot, a member of the Republican Democratic Party, negotiated a government on 9 June 1914, but its perceived overly-centrist leanings lead much of the left-wing of the Radical Party to rebel against it, bringing it down on the day it was presented to the chamber. Ribot was quickly succeeded by René Viviani of the Republican-Socialist Party, who formed a centre-left government on 13 June, only four days later.

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats
Republican Union 1,588,07518.8496
Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party 1,530,18818.15140
French Section of the Workers' International 1,413,04416.76103
Independent Radicals 1,399,83016.6096
ALPPN–Reactionaries1,297,72215.3973
Republican Left 819,1849.7257
Republican-Socialist Party 326,9273.8827
Others56,0860.670
Total8,431,056100.00592
Valid votes8,431,05697.62
Invalid/blank votes205,5112.38
Total votes8,636,567100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,185,07877.22
Source: Mackie & Rose, [2] Nohlen & Stöver [3]

References

  1. Le Matin 12 May 1914
  2. Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130
  3. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p691 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7

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