1927 Romanian general election

1927 Romanian general election

←  1926 7–14 July 1927 1928  →
All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies All 110 seats in the Senate
Turnout	77.0% (2.0pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Ion I. C. Brătianu Iuliu Maniu György Bethlen (pictured) and Rudolf Brandsch Party PNL PNȚ BMG Leader since 11 January 1909 10 October 1926 (party foundation) 1 April 1926 (Bethlen) 6 September 1919 (Brandsch) Last election 0 S 16 D, 7.5% – – Seats won 92 S / 318 D 17 S / 54 D 1 S / 15 D Seat change 92 S / 302 D New New Popular vote 1,704,435 D 610,149 D 173,517 D Percentage 62.7% 22.5% 6.4% Swing 55.2pp New New
Prime Minister before election Ion I. C. Brătianu PNL Subsequent Prime Minister Ion I. C. Brătianu PNL

General elections were held in Romania in July 1927. The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 7 July, whilst the Senate was elected in three stages on 10, 12 and 14 July. The result was a victory for the governing National Liberal Party (PNL), which won 318 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 92 of the 110 seats in the Senate elected through universal male vote. ^[1]

Results

Chamber of Deputies

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	National Liberal Party	1,704,435	62.72	318	+302
	National Peasants' Party	610,149	22.45	54	New
	Hungarian German Bloc	173,517	6.39	15	New
	People's Party	53,371	1.96	0	–292
	National-Christian Defense League	52,481	1.93	0	–10
	Romanian Social Democratic Party	50,059	1.84	0	0
	Peasant Workers' Bloc	31,505	1.16	0	0
	National Party	28,157	1.04	0	New
	Legion of the Archangel Michael	10,761	0.40	0	New
	Traders Council	154	0.01	0	0
	Other parties	2,884	0.11	0	–
Total		2,717,473	100.00	387	0
Valid votes		2,717,473	98.36
Invalid/blank votes		45,306	1.64
Total votes		2,762,779	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,586,086	77.04
Source: Sternberger et al., [2] Nohlen & Stöver

Senate

Party		Seats	+/–
	National Liberal Party	92	+92
	National Peasants' Party	17	New
	Hungarian German Bloc	1	New
	Other parties	3	–
Total		113	–2
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp1609-1611 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064