1902 French legislative election
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Legislative elections were held in France on 27 April and 11 May 1902.
These elections were a victory for the Bloc des gauches alliance between Socialists, Radicals, and the left wing of the Republicans, over the anti-Dreyfusard right wing of the Republicans, the progressistes. The Bloc des gauches had been brought together to support the "Republican Defense Cabinet" (gouvernement de défense républicaine) formed by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau following the assault on the newly elected President, Émile Loubet, on the Longchamp Racecourse on 4 June 1899, during the Dreyfus affair.
However, Waldeck-Rousseau's own supporters (the ARD) took few seats in the election compared to the Radicals and Socialists. After the election, President Loubet invited the Radical Émile Combes to form a government, which lasted until January 1905, when the Socialists withdrew from the Bloc des gauches.[1]
Results
Alliance | Party | Votes | % Vote | Seats | |
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Progressive Republicans | 1,629,483 | 19.30% | 107 | ||
Bloc des gauches | Radicals | 1,445,415 | 17.12% | 121 | |
Popular Liberal Action | 1,350,581 | 16.00% | 85 | ||
Nationalists | 1,099,137 | 13.02% | 56 | ||
Bloc des gauches | Republican Left | 1,087,048 | 12.87% | 79 | |
Bloc des gauches | Radical-Socialists | 854,269 | 10.12% | 77 | |
Bloc des gauches | French Socialist Party | 664,803 | 7.87% | 37 | |
Socialist Party of France | 210,400 | 2.49% | 9 | ||
Monarchists | 42,406 | 0.50% | 3 | ||
Miscellaneous | 59,822 | 0.70% | 1 |
References
- ^ Gildea, R., Children of the Revolution, London, 2008, p. 278-282
Sources
- Lingane, les élections de 1902
- L'année Politique 1902, by André Daniel, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1903