French legislative election, 1914

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French legislative election, 1914
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  1910 26 April and 10 May 1914 1919  

All 595 seats to the Chamber of Deputies

  Majority party Minority party Third party
  Joseph Caillaux.jpg Jean Jaures, 1904, by Nadar.jpg Raymond Poincare cph.3b09601.jpg
Leader Joseph Caillaux Jean Jaurès Raymond Poincaré
Party PRRRS SFIO PRD
Leader's seat Sarthe Tarn Meuse
Seats won195 102 66
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 66Decrease2.svg 5Decrease2.svg 47
Popular vote2,930,018 1,413,044 2,407,259
Percentage32.61% 16.97% 14.64%
SwingDecrease2.svg 0.12%Decrease2.svg 3.77%Decrease2.svg 0.10%

France Chambre des deputes 1914.png

Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

Prime Minister before election

Gaston Doumergue
Radical-Socialist Party

Elected Prime Minister

René Viviani
Republican-Socialist Party

The 1914 general elections were held on 26 April and 10 May 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War I. The Radical Party, a classical Liberal party, won a landslide victory, though the entirety of the chambers, from Catholics to socialists, united during the war to form the Union sacrée .

World War I 1914–1918 global war originating in Europe

World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. It is also one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the 1918 influenza pandemic caused another 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide.

The union sacrée was a political truce in France in which the left-wing agreed, during World War I, not to oppose the government or call any strikes. Made in the name of patriotism, it stood in opposition to the pledge made by the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) internationalism, and its former leader Jean Jaurès, not to enter any "bourgeois war." Although an important part of the socialist movement joined the Union sacrée, some trade unionists such as Pierre Monatte opposed it.

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Results

PartyVotes% Vote
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party and all RI 2,930,01834.75%
  Democratic Republican Alliance 2,407,25928.55%
  French Section of the Workers International 1,413,04416.76%
  Popular Liberal Action 956,26111.34%
  Republican Federation 397,5474.72%
  Republican-Socialist Party 326,9273.88%
Popular vote
PRRRS
34.75%
ARD
28.55%
SFIO
16.76%
ALP
11.34%
FR
4.72%
PRS
3.88%

Parliamentary Groups

AffiliationPartySeats
Left
  French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 102
  Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) 24
Centre-Left and Centre
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (PRRRS) and non-inscrit Radicals 195
  Republican Union (ARD group and ARD-FR joint group) 88
  Republicans of the Left (RI-ARD joint group) 66
Right
  Republican Federation 37
  Popular Liberal Action 23
  Miscellaneous Right 15
Non-inscrits
51
Total601

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