1914 French legislative election

French legislative election, 1914

26 April and 10 May 1914
All 595 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Joseph Caillaux Jean Jaurès Raymond Poincaré Party PRV SFIO PRD Leader's seat Sarthe Tarn Meuse Seats won 195 102 66 Seat change 66 5 47 Popular vote 2,930,018 1,413,044 2,407,259 Percentage 32.61% 16.97% 14.64% Swing 0.12% 3.77% 0.10%
Composition of the Chamber of Deputies
Prime Minister before election Gaston Doumergue Radical-Socialist Party Elected Prime Minister René Viviani Republican-Socialist Party

The 1914 general elections were held on 26 April and 10 May 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War I. The Radical Party, a classical Liberal party, won a landslide victory, though the entirety of the chambers, from Catholics to socialists, united during the war to form the Union sacrée.

Results

Popular Vote

Party		Votes	% Vote
	Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party and all RI	2,930,018	34.75%
	Democratic Republican Alliance	2,407,259	28.55%
	French Section of the Workers International	1,413,044	16.76%
	Popular Liberal Action	956,261	11.34%
	Republican Federation	397,547	4.72%
	Republican-Socialist Party	326,927	3.88%

Popular vote PRRRS   34.75% ARD   28.55% SFIO   16.76% ALP   11.34% FR   4.72% PRS   3.88%

Parliamentary Groups

Affiliation	Party		Seats
Left
		French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)	102
		Republican-Socialist Party (PRS)	24
Centre-Left and Centre
		Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (PRRRS) and non-inscrit Radicals	195
		Republican Union (ARD group and ARD-FR joint group)	88
		Republicans of the Left (RI-ARD joint group)	66
Right
		Republican Federation	37
		Popular Liberal Action	23
		Miscellaneous Right	15
Non-inscrits
			51
Total			601

Sources

• Roi et President