French legislative election, 1932

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French legislative election, 1932
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  1928 1 and 8 May 1932 1936  

All 607 seats to the Chamber of Deputies

  Majority party Minority party Third party
  Edouard Herriot - President du Conseil - 1924.jpeg Andre Tardieu 1928.jpg Maurice Thorez-1932.jpg
Leader Édouard Herriot André Tardieu Maurice Thorez
Party PRRRS AD PCF
Alliance Lefts Cartel Right-wing coalition
Leader's seat Rhône Territoire de Belfort Seine
Seats won320 268 10
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 33new partyDecrease2.svg 1
Popular vote4,394,963 4,380,717 796,630
Percentage45.89% 45.7% 8.32%
SwingIncrease2.svg 7.82%Decrease2.svg 2.94%

France Chambre des deputes 1932.png

Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

Prime Minister before election

André Tardieu
Democratic Alliance

Elected Prime Minister

Édouard Herriot
Radical-Socialist Party

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French legislative elections to elect the 15th legislature of the French Third Republic were held on 1 and 8 May 1932.

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.

Contents

These elections saw the victory of the second Cartel des gauches , but the socialists and Radicals could not form a coalition government. Édouard Herriot instead formed a government with the support of the centre-right, and Radicals held the premiership up to the 6 February 1934 crisis.

Édouard Herriot French Radical politician

Édouard Marie Herriot was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He was leader of the first Cartel des Gauches.

6 February 1934 crisis

The 6 February 1934 crisis was an anti-parliamentarist street demonstration in Paris organized by multiple far-right leagues that culminated in a riot on the Place de la Concorde, near the seat of the French National Assembly. The police shot and killed 15 demonstrators. It was one of the major political crises during the Third Republic (1870–1940). Frenchmen on the left feared it was an attempt to organize a fascist coup d'état. According to historian Joel Colton, "The consensus among scholars is that there was no concerted or unified design to seize power and that the leagues lacked the coherence, unity, or leadership to accomplish such an end."

Results

Summary of the popular vote in the 1 and 8 May 1932 Chamber of Deputies election results

Chamber of Deputies (France) name of several parliamentary bodies of France in the 19th and 20th centuries

Chamber of Deputies was a parliamentary body in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:

e    d  
AllianceVotes%PartyAbbr.Votes%
  Cartel des Gauches 4,394,963 45.89 French Section of the Workers' International (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière) SFIO1,964,38420.51
Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste)PRRRS1,836,99119.18
Republican-Socialist Party (Parti républicain-socialiste)PRS515,1765.38
Miscellaneous Left (Divers gauche)DVG78,4120.82
 Right and Centre 4,380,717 45.74 Democratic Alliance (Alliance démocratique)AD1,299,93613.57
Republican Federation (Fédération républicaine)FR1,233,36012.88
Independent Radicals (Radicaux indépendents)RI955,9909.98
Independents (Indépendents)Ind499,2365.21
Popular Democrats (Démocrates populaires)PDP309,3363.36
ConservativesCon82,8590.87
French Communist Party (Parti communiste français)PCF796,6308.32
Other partiesDiv4,1120.04
Total9,576,422100
Abstention: 18.41%
Popular vote
SFIO
20.51%
PRRRS
19.18%
AD
13.57%
FR
12.88%
RI
9.98%
PCF
8.32%
PRS
5.38%
Ind
5.21%
PDP
3.36%
Others
1.73%

Parliamentary Groups [2]

AffiliationPartySeats
Far-Left
  French Communist Party (PCF) 10
  Party of Proletarian Unity (PUP) 9
Left
  French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 132
  Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) and French Socialist Party (PSF) 28
Centre-Left
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (PRRRS) 160
  Independent Left 15
Centre-Right
  Independents of the Left 26
  Radical Left 47
  Republican Centre 40
  Republicans of the Left 40
  Republicans of the Centre 7
  Popular Democrats 16
Right
  Republican and Social 18
  Republican Federation 41
  Independents of Economic, Social and Peasant Action 8
  Independents 16
Total607

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