1914 French legislative election

1914 French legislative election

← 1910 26 April and 10 May 1914 1919 →
All 602 seats to the Chamber of Deputies 302 seats needed for a majority
Registered	11,515,672
Turnout	8,431,056 (73.2%)
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 192 102 77 Seat change 69 27 11 Popular vote 1,530,188 1,413,044 819,184 Percentage 18.15% 16.76% 9.72% Swing 21.02% 3.85% 1.41%
Prime Minister before election Gaston Doumergue Independent Radicals 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 radical and increasingly centre-right party, won a landslide victory, 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[]

Popular Vote[]

Party			Votes[2]	%	Seats[1]
		Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party	1,530,188	18.15	192
		Republican Federation and Miscellaneous right	1,588,075	18.84	88
		Left Republicans (PRD, FG, and Republican-Socialists)	819,184	9.72	77
		Independent Radicals and the Democratic Left	1,399,830	16.60	66
Government majority			5,337,277	63.30	361
		French Section of the Workers' International	1,413,044	16.76	102
		Republican-Socialist Party (Augagneurin)	326,927	3.88	22
		Revolutionary Socialists and Independent Socialists	56,086	0.7	4
		Miscellaneous and Other			1
Parliamentary left			1,796,057	21.30	164
		Popular Liberal Action, nationalists, and reactionaries	1,297,722	15.39	38
		Independent Republicans			12
Parliamentary right			1,297,722	15.39	50
Total			8,431,056	100	602

References[]

Sources[]

• https://www.france-politique.fr/elections-legislatives-1914.htm
• https://www.roi-president.com/legislative-1914/^{[permanent dead link]}

External links[]

• Map of Deputies elected in 1914 according to their group in the House, including overseas (in French)