French legislative election, 1928

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French legislative election, 1928
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  1924 22 and 29 April 1928 1932  

All 604 seats to the Chamber of Deputies

 Majority partyMinority party
  Raymond Poincare cph.3b09601.jpg Daladier 1924.jpg
Leader Raymond Poincaré Édouard Daladier
Party AD PRRRS
Leader's seat Meuse Vaucluse
Seats won180125
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 87Decrease2.svg 14
Popular vote2,196,2431,682,543
Percentage23.19%17.77%
SwingIncrease2.svg 11.47%Decrease2.svg 0.09%

 Third partyFourth party
  Louis Marin in 1932.jpg Leon Blum Meurisse b 1927.jpg
Leader Louis Marin Léon Blum
Party FR SFIO
Leader's seat Meurthe-et-Moselle Aude
Seats won102100
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 14Decrease2.svg 4
Popular vote2,082,0411,708,972
Percentage21.99%18.05
SwingDecrease2.svg 13.36%Decrease2.svg 2.05

France Chambre des deputes 1928.png
Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

Prime Minister before election

Raymond Poincaré
Democratic Alliance

Elected Prime Minister

Raymond Poincaré
Democratic Alliance

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Legislative elections in France to elect the 14th legislature of the French Third Republic were held on 22 and 29 April 1928. These elections saw the restoration of the two-round system system that had been abolished in 1919.

French Third Republic Nation of France from 1870 to 1940

The French Third Republic was the system of government adopted in France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 after France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in France.

Two-round system voting system used to elect a single winner where a second round of voting is used if no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round

The two-round system is a voting method used to elect a single winner, where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate. However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes, then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting is held.

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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.

Raymond Poincaré French statesman and lawyer

Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré was a French statesman who served three times as 58th Prime Minister of France, and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to political and social stability.

Results

PartyVotes% Vote
  Democratic Republican Alliance and Independent Radicals 2,196,24323.19%
  Republican Federation 2,082,04121.99%
  French Section of the Workers International 1,708,97218.05%
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party 1,682,54317.77%
  French Communist Party 1,066,09911.26%
  Republican-Socialist Party 432,04504.56%
  Independents 136,9661.45%
 Conservatives78,2030.83%
  Independent Socialists 58,2790.62%
  Miscellaneous Left 24,1220.25%
 Others4,3480.05%
Popular vote
ARD-RI
23.19%
FR
21.99%
SFIO
18.05%
PRRRS
17.77%
PCF
11.26%
PRS
4.56%
Ind
1.45%
Others
1.74%

Parliamentary Groups [2]

AffiliationPartySeats
Far-Left
  French Communist Party (PCF)11
Left
  French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)100
  Republican-Socialist Party (PRS)18
  French Socialist Party (PSF)12
Centre-Left
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (PRRRS)125
  Independents of the Left 15
  Social and Unionist Left 18
Centre-Right
  Radical Left 54
  Democratic and Social Action 29
  Republicans of the Left 64
  Popular Democrats 19
Right
  Democratic and Republican Union 102
Non-inscrits
37
Total604

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