1919 Romanian general election

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1919 Romanian general election
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  1918 4–8 November 1919 1920  

All 568 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
All 216 seats in the Senate
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Vaida-Voevod.jpg Ion I C Bratianu - Foto01.jpg Pan Halippa in Nisporeni.jpg
Leader Alexandru Vaida-Voevod Ion I. C. Brătianu Pan Halippa
Party PNR PNL PȚB
Leader's seat Cluj County Gorj County Bălți County
Seats won169 C / 76 S 103 C / 54 S 72 C / 35 S

Prime Minister before election

Artur Văitoianu
Independent

Subsequent Prime Minister

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
PNR

General elections were held in Romania between 4 and 8 November 1919. [1] The Romanian National Party, which ran mostly unopposed in Transylvania, emerged as the largest party in Parliament, winning 169 of the 568 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 76 of the 216 seats in the Senate. [2] Though both the Socialist Party and People's League decided to boycott the elections, several of their candidates who had registered before the decision went on to win seats.

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Results

Chamber of Deputies

PartySeats
Romanian National Party 169
National Liberal Party 103
Bessarabian Peasants' Party 72
Peasants' Party 61
Democratic Nationalist Party 27
Democratic Union Party 20
Progressive Conservative Party 13
Group of Transylvanian Saxons 8
National Democratic Hungarian-Szekler Party 8
Socialist Party 7
People's League 7
Swabian Group 6
Transylvanian Peasants' Party 4
National Union from Banat 4
Other parties59
Total568
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Senate

PartySeats
Romanian National Party 76
National Liberal Party 54
Bessarabian Peasants' Party 35
Peasants' Party 28
Democratic Nationalist Party 9
Democratic Union Party 7
Progressive Conservative Party 4
Group of Transylvanian Saxons 3
Total216
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1591 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, pp1609–1611