1914 French legislative election
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Legislative elections were held in France on 26 April and 10 May 1914, three months before the outbreak of
Union sacrée
.
The elections saw 192 new members elected.[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
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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Republican Union | 1,588,075 | 18.84 | 96 | |
Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party | 1,530,188 | 18.15 | 140 | |
French Section of the Workers' International | 1,413,044 | 16.76 | 103 | |
Independent Radicals | 1,399,830 | 16.60 | 96 | |
ALP–PN–Reactionaries | 1,297,722 | 15.39 | 73 | |
Republican Left | 819,184 | 9.72 | 57 | |
Republican-Socialist Party | 326,927 | 3.88 | 27 | |
Others | 56,086 | 0.67 | 0 | |
Total | 8,431,056 | 100.00 | 592 | |
Valid votes | 8,431,056 | 97.62 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 205,511 | 2.38 | ||
Total votes | 8,636,567 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 11,185,078 | 77.22 | ||
Source: Mackie & Rose,[2] Nohlen & Stöver[3] |
References
- ^ Le Matin 12 May 1914
- ^ Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130
- ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7