1914 French legislative election
26 April and 10 May 1914
All 592 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
297 seats needed for a majority
Prime Minister before election

Gaston Doumergue
RI

 Elected Prime Minister

René Viviani
PRS

Legislative elections were held in France on 26 April and 10 May 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War I. The Radical Party, a radical and increasingly centre-right party, emerged as the largest party, though, with the outbreak of the First World War, many in the Chamber, ranging from Catholics to socialists, united to form the Union sacrée.

Excluding one seat in Martinique that was not proclaimed, of the 602 seats up for election 192 returned new members.[1]

Alexandre Ribot, a member of the Republican Democratic Party, negotiated a government on 9 June 1914, but its perceived overly-centrist leanings lead much of the left-wing of the Radical Party to rebel against it, bringing it down on the day it was presented to the chamber. Ribot was quickly succeeded by René Viviani of the Republican-Socialist Party, who formed a centre-left government on 13 June, only four days later.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Republican Union1,588,07518.8496
Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party1,530,18818.15140
French Section of the Workers' International1,413,04416.76103
Independent Radicals1,399,83016.6096
ALP–PN–Reactionaries1,297,72215.3973
Republican Left819,1849.7257
Republican-Socialist Party326,9273.8827
Others56,0860.670
Total8,431,056100.00592
Valid votes8,431,05697.62
Invalid/blank votes205,5112.38
Total votes8,636,567100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,185,07877.22
Source: Mackie & Rose,[2] Nohlen & Stöver[3]

References

  1. ↑ Le Matin 12 May 1914
  2. ↑ Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130
  3. ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p691 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

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