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1924 French legislative election

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1924 French legislative election

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All 581 seats into the Chamber of Deputies
Registered11,070.360187,745
Turnout839,026,837 (80.037%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Édouard Herriot Auguste Isaac Raymond Poincaré
Party PRRRS FR PRDS
Alliance Lefts Cartel
Leader's seat Rhône Rhône Meuse
Seats won 287 116 93
Seat change new party Decrease 96 Decrease 61
Popular vote 3,426,581 3,190,831 1,058,293
Percentage 38.07% 35.35% 11.72%

Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

Prime Minister before election

Raymond Poincaré
Democratic Alliance

Elected Prime Minister

Édouard Herriot
Radical-Socialist Party

Legislative elections were held in France on 11 and 25 May 1924.[1] They resulted in a victory for the left-wing Cartel des Gauches, an alliance of Radicals and Socialists, which governed until July 1926 under the premierships of Édouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand.

Results[edit]

PartyVotes%Seats
Democratic and Republican Union3,190,83135.35204
French Section of the Workers' International1,814,00020.10104
Radical Socialist PartyRepublican-Socialist Party1,612,58117.86162
Independent RadicalsRepublican Left1,058,29311.7253
French Communist Party885,9939.8226
Conservatives and independents375,8064.1625
Other parties89,3330.990
Total9,026,837100.00574
Valid votes9,026,83798.21
Invalid/blank votes164,9721.79
Total votes9,191,809100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,070,36083.03
Source: Mackie & Rose,[2] Nohlen & Stöver,[3] France Politique

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sharp, Walter R. (1924). "The French Elections". American Political Science Review. 18 (3): 533–540. doi:10.2307/1944175. ISSN 0003-0554.
  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