1931 Romanian general election

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1931 Romanian general election
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All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
All 113 seats in the Senate
Turnout72.48%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ion Duca Iuliu Maniu Gheorghe Brătianu
Party National Union PNȚ PNL–Brătianu
Leader since 28 December 1930
(PNL-Duca) 		10 October 1926
(party foundation) 		15 June 1930
(party foundation)
Last election – 105
D
 –
Seats won 108 S / 289 D 1 S / 30 D 0
D
Seat change New Decrease 104 S / Decrease 296 D New
Popular vote 1,389,901
D
 438,747
D
 173,586
D
Percentage 48.86% 15.42% 6.10%
Swing New Decrease63.8pp New
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Alexandru Averescu György Bethlen A. C. Cuza
Party
PP
 PM LANC
Leader since 3 April 1918
(party foundation) 		1 April 1926 March 1923
(party foundation)
Last election 0
D
 0
D
 0
D
Seats won 0
D
 0
D
 0
D
Seat change Steady 0 S / Increase 5 D Steady 0 S / Decrease 6 D Steady 0 S / Increase 8 D
Popular vote 141,141
D
 139,003
D
 113,863
D
Percentage 4.96% 4.89% 4.00%
Swing Increase2.5pp Decrease1.3pp Increase2.8pp
Prime Minister before election

Nicolae Iorga
PND

Subsequent
Prime Minister

Nicolae Iorga
PND

General elections were held in

Vlad Ţepeş League, the Agrarian League and several other parties.[2][3] The Union won 289 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 108 of the 113 seats in the Senate elected through universal vote.[3] The five seats won by the Communist-dominated Peasant Workers' Bloc
were ultimately invalidated by the new Parliament.

Results

Chamber of Deputies

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
National Union
People's Party
141,1414.9610–
Magyar Party139,0034.8910–6
National-Christian Defense League113,8634.008+8
Peasants' Party–Lupu100,6823.547+2
Social Democratic Party94,9573.346–3
League Against Usury–PȚD-Stere[b]80,5702.836New
Peasant Workers' Bloc73,7162.595+5
Jewish Party64,1932.264+4
Legion of the Archangel Michael30,7831.080New
Other parties3,4120.120–
Total2,844,554100.003870
Valid votes2,844,55497.18
Invalid/blank votes82,5682.82
Total votes2,927,122100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,038,46472.48
Source: Sternberger et al.,[6] Nohlen & Stöver

Senate

PartySeats
National Union108
Magyar Party4
National Peasants' Party1
Total113
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Notes

  1. ^ Of the 289 National Union seats, eighty were taken by the National Liberal Party-Duca, ten by the German Party and eight by the Agrarian League.[4] Three mandates (Mircea Iorga, Dimitrie Pompeiu and Petre Topa) were taken by PND.
  2. League against Usury and Democratic Peasants' Party–Stere, five were taken by the PȚD-S and one by the League against Usury.[5]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1601
  3. ^ a b Nohlen & Stöver, p1610-1611
  4. ^ Adevărul no. 14552 (1 June 1931), p. 5
  5. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1610
  6. Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen
    & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064
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