1928 French legislative election

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1928 French legislative election
French Third Republic
← 1924 22 and 29 April 1928 1932 →

All 602 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout83.79%
Party Leader % Seats +/–
GR–RI Raymond Poincaré 23.19 126 +73
URD Louis Marin 21.99 182 −22
SFIO Léon Blum 18.05 99 −5
PRS Édouard Daladier 17.77 120
PCF Pierre Semard 11.26 14 −12
PRS 4.56 30
DVD 2.27 26 +1
SI 0.62 3 New
DIV 0.30 2 +2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Raymond Poincaré
ARD
Raymond Poincaré
ARD
Campaign posters in the streets of Paris, 1928.

Legislative elections were held in France on 22 and 29 April 1928. These elections saw the restoration of the two-round system that had been abolished in 1919.[1]

The result was a victory for the centre-right government of Raymond Poincaré, which had been in power since July 1926. A succession of centre-right governments followed until 1932.

Results[edit]

PartyVotes%Seats
Republican Left2,196,24323.1974
Independent Radicals52
Democratic and Republican Union2,082,04121.99182
French Section of the Workers' International1,708,97218.0599
Radical Socialist Party1,682,54317.77120
French Communist Party1,066,09911.2614
Republican-Socialist Party432,0454.5630
Conservatives and independents215,1692.2726
Independent Socialists58,2790.623
Miscellaneous left24,1220.252
Other parties4,3480.05
Total9,469,861100.00602
Valid votes9,469,86199.18
Invalid/blank votes78,2200.82
Total votes9,548,081100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,395,76083.79
Source: Mackie & Rose,[2] Nohlen & Stöver,[3] France Politique

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sharp, Walter R. (1928). "The New French Electoral Law and the Elections of 1928". American Political Science Review. 22 (3): 684–698. doi:10.2307/1945623. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1945623. S2CID 147468947.
  2. ^ Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1982) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130
  3. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p692 ISBN 9783832956097

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