1922 Romanian general election

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1922 Romanian general election
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  1920 1–3 March 1922 1926  

All 372 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
All 148 seats in the Senate
 Majority partyMinority party
  Ion I C Bratianu - Foto01.jpg CStere.jpeg
Leader Ion I. C. Brătianu Constantin Stere
Party PNL
Leader's seat Gorj County Soroca County
Seats won222 C / 111 S 40 C / 11 S
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 206 C / Increase2.svg 110 S Increase2.svg 15 C / Increase2.svg 1 S

Prime Minister before election

Ion I. C. Brătianu
PNL

Subsequent Prime Minister

Ion I. C. Brătianu
PNL

General elections were held in Romania between 1 and 3 March 1922. In the first stage between 1 and 3 March, seats in the Senate were elected. In the second stage between 5 and 7 March the Chamber of Deputies was elected, and in the third and final stage from 9 to 11 March, additional Senate seats were elected. [1] The result was a victory for the governing National Liberal Party, which won 222 of the 372 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 111 of the 148 seats in the Senate. [2] Both houses were combined to form a Constitutional Assembly, [3] which approved the 1923 constitution.

Contents

Campaign

In 34 of the 121 constituencies in Transylvania, candidates ran unopposed and were proclaimed elected without an actual poll, [4] mostly because the National Liberal government refused to register opposition candidates. Overall, the campaign was dominated by the government through what some opposition representative deemed "terror". The National Liberals freely used the administration and the Army in order to promote its candidates and intimidate the opposition, rejected the registration of many opposition candidates while pressuring others into withdrawing, destroyed opposition publications, forbade or brutally dissolved opposition rallies, arrested candidates and worked to split the vote among the competing opposition parties. [5]

Government pressure continued during election day. According to Constantin Stere, army officers in Bessarabia campaigned for the government inside the polling stations and entered voting booths to ensure a vote for the government. According to Nicolae Iorga, government agents beat up opposition supporters in Fălticeni, Dorohoi and Odobești, prevented whole villages from voting in the Putna County, while in Argeș County the soldiers voted instead of the public. In several places across the country, opposition candidates were prevented from voting. Opposition leaders condemned the abuses of the government, with Romanian National Party leader Iuliu Maniu declaring the elections "a European scandal" and initially refusing to take part in the works of the newly elected Parliament. [5]

Results

Chamber of Deputies

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
National Liberal Party 222+206
Peasants' Party 40+15
Romanian National Party 26–1
Bessarabian Peasants' Party 22–1
Democratic Union Party 15+14
People's Party 13–193
Democratic Nationalist Party 5
Hungarian Union 3New
Conservative-Democratic Party 3–14
Federation of Socialist Parties 1New
Other parties22
Total372+6
Total votes2,210,370
Registered voters/turnout2,908,01576.01
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Senate

PartySeats+/–
National Liberal Party 111+110
Bessarabian Peasants' Party 13+7
Peasants' Party 11+1
Romanian National Party 9–5
People's Party 2–122
Democratic Nationalist Party 2
Total148–18
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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References

Citations

  1. Nohlen & Stöver (2010), p. 1591.
  2. Nohlen & Stöver (2010), p. 1599.
  3. Nohlen & Stöver (2010), p. 1592.
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