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 Louis Marin.jpg
Leader Raymond Poincaré Louis Marin
Party AD FR
Leader's seat Meuse Meurthe-et-Moselle
Seats won126182
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 73Decrease2.svg 22
Popular vote2,196,2432,082,041
Percentage23.19%21.99%
SwingIncrease2.svg 11.47ppDecrease2.svg 13.36pp

 Third partyFourth party
  Leon Blum 1927.jpg Daladier 1924.jpg
Leader Léon Blum Édouard Daladier
Party SFIO PRV
Leader's seat Aude Vaucluse
Seats won99120
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 5Decrease2.svg 19
Popular vote1,708,9721,682,543
Percentage18.0517.77%
SwingDecrease2.svg 2.05ppDecrease2.svg 0.09pp

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

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