1932 Romanian general election

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1932 Romanian general election
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  1931 17–26 July 1932 1933  

All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
All 113 seats in the Senate
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
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Leader Iuliu Maniu Ion Duca Gheorghe Brătianu
Party PNȚ+PG PNL PNL–Brătianu
Seats won104 S / 274 C 1 S / 28 C 0 S / 14 D
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 103 S / Increase2.svg 244 C Decrease2.svg 10 S / Decrease2.svg 52 C Steady2.svg 0 S / Increase2.svg 2 D
Popular vote1,203,700 D 407,023 D 195,048 D
Percentage41.52%14.04%6.73%

Prime Minister before election

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
PNȚ

Subsequent Prime Minister

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
PNȚ

General elections were held in Romania in July 1932. [1] The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 17 July, whilst the Senate was elected in three stages on 20, 24 and 26 July. [1] The result was a victory for the governing National Peasants' Party-German Party alliance, which won 274 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 104 of the 113 seats in the Senate elected through universal male vote. [2] Of the 274 Chamber seats, 265 were taken by the National Peasant's Party and nine by the German Party. [2]

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Results

Chamber of Deputies

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
National Peasants' PartyGerman Party 1,203,70041.52274+244
National Liberal Party 407,02314.0428
National Liberal Party–Brătianu 195,0486.7314+2
Peasants' Party–Lupu 170,8605.8912+5
National-Christian Defense League 159,0715.4911+3
Magyar Party 141,8944.8914+4
National Agrarian Party 108,8573.758New
Social Democratic Party 101,0683.497+1
Codreanu Group 70,6742.445New
National Union [lower-alpha 1] 68,1162.355
Jewish Party 67,5822.335+1
People's Party 64,5252.234–6
Traders Council45,8511.580New
Democratic Peasants' Party–Stere 41,4541.430–5
Conservative Party 18,6430.640New
Agrarian League 14,8310.510New
Peasant Workers' Bloc 9,4410.330–5
Civic Union1,5030.050New
Other parties9,1780.320
Total2,899,319100.003870
Valid votes2,899,31997.06
Invalid/blank votes87,8102.94
Total votes2,987,129100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,220,73170.77
Source: Sternberger et al., [4] Nohlen & Stöver

Senate

PartySeats+/–
National Peasants' PartyGerman Party 104+103
Magyar Party 3–1
National-Christian Defense League 2+2
Democratic Peasant Party 2New
National Liberal Party 1
Peasants' Party–Lupu 1+1
Total1130
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Notes

  1. Of the five seats won by the National Union (an alliance of the National Party–Iorga, the Democratic Nationalist Party and the Agrarian Union Party), the National Party–Iorga took three and the Agrarian Union Party two. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1591 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. 1 2 Nohlen & Stöver, p1610-1611
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1610
  4. Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064