1928 French legislative election

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1928 French legislative election
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  1924 22 and 29 April 1928 1932  

All 604 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Registered11,395,760
Turnout9,548,081 (83.79%)
 Majority partyMinority party
  Raymond Poincare 1914.jpg Daladier 1924.jpg
Leader Raymond Poincaré Édouard Daladier
Party AD PRV
Leader's seat Meuse Vaucluse
Seats won126120
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 73Decrease2.svg 19
Popular vote2,196,2431,682,543
Percentage23.19%17.77%
SwingIncrease2.svg 11.47ppDecrease2.svg 0.09pp

 Third partyFourth party
  Louis Marin.jpg Leon Blum 1927.jpg
Leader Louis Marin Léon Blum
Party FR SFIO
Leader's seat Meurthe-et-Moselle Aude
Seats won18299
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 22Decrease2.svg 5
Popular vote2,082,0411,708,972
Percentage21.99%18.05
SwingDecrease2.svg 13.36ppDecrease2.svg 2.05pp

Prime Minister before election

Raymond Poincaré
Democratic Alliance

Elected Prime Minister

Raymond Poincaré
Democratic Alliance

Campaign posters in the streets of Paris, 1928. Bundesarchiv Bild 102-05349, Paris, Wahlplakate.jpg
Campaign posters in the streets of Paris, 1928.

Legislative elections were held in France on 22 and 29 April 1928. These elections saw the restoration of the two-round system that had been abolished in 1919. [1]

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The result was a victory for the centre-right government of Raymond Poincaré, which had been in power since July 1926. A succession of centre-right governments followed until 1932.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Republican Left2,196,24323.1974
Independent Radicals 52
Democratic and Republican Union 2,082,04121.99182
French Section of the Workers' International 1,708,97218.0599
Radical Socialist Party 1,682,54317.77120
French Communist Party 1,066,09911.2614
Republican-Socialist Party 432,0454.5630
Conservatives and independents 215,1692.2726
Independent Socialists 58,2790.623
Miscellaneous left 24,1220.252
Other parties4,3480.05
Total9,469,861100.00602
Valid votes9,469,86199.18
Invalid/blank votes78,2200.82
Total votes9,548,081100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,395,76083.79
Source: Mackie & Rose, [2] Nohlen & Stöver, [3] France Politique

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References

  1. Sharp, Walter R. (1928). "The New French Electoral Law and the Elections of 1928". American Political Science Review. 22 (3): 684–698. doi:10.2307/1945623. ISSN   0003-0554. JSTOR   1945623. S2CID   147468947.
  2. Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1982) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130
  3. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p692 ISBN   9783832956097