1932 Romanian general election

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1932 Romanian general election
← 1931 17–26 July 1932 1933 →
All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
All 113 seats in the Senate
  Majority party Minority party Third party
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Leader Iuliu Maniu Ion Duca Gheorghe Brătianu
Party PNȚ+PG PNL PNL–Brătianu
Leader since 1926 1930 1930
Seats won 104 S / 274 C 1 S / 28 C 0 S / 14 D
Seat change Increase 103 S / Increase 244 C Decrease 10 S / Decrease 52 C Steady 0 S / Increase 2 D
Popular vote 1,203,700 D 407,023 D 195,048 D
Percentage 41.52% 14.04% 6.73%
Prime Minister before election

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
PNȚ

Subsequent Prime Minister

Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
PNȚ

General elections were held in Romania in July 1932.[1] The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 17 July, whilst the Senate was elected in three stages on 20, 24 and 26 July.[1] The result was a victory for the governing National Peasants' Party-German Party alliance, which won 274 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 104 of the 113 seats in the Senate elected through universal male vote.[2] Of the 274 Chamber seats, 265 were taken by the National Peasant's Party and nine by the German Party.[2]

Results[]

Chamber of Deputies[]

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
National Peasants' Party–German Party1,203,70041.52274+244
National Liberal Party407,02314.0428–
National Liberal Party–Brătianu195,0486.7314+2
Peasants' Party–Lupu170,8605.8912+5
National-Christian Defense League159,0715.4911+3
Magyar Party141,8944.8914+4
National Agrarian Party108,8573.758New
Social Democratic Party101,0683.497+1
Codreanu Group70,6742.445New
National Union[a]68,1162.355–
Jewish Party67,5822.335+1
People's Party64,5252.234–6
Traders Council45,8511.580New
Democratic Peasants' Party–Stere41,4541.430–5
Conservative Party18,6430.640New
Agrarian League14,8310.510New
Peasant Workers' Bloc9,4410.330–5
Civic Union1,5030.050New
Other parties9,1780.320–
Total2,899,319100.003870
Valid votes2,899,31997.06
Invalid/blank votes87,8102.94
Total votes2,987,129100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,220,73170.77
Source: Sternberger et al.,[4] Nohlen & Stöver

Senate[]

PartySeats+/–
National Peasants' Party–German Party104+103
Magyar Party3–1
National-Christian Defense League2+2
2New
National Liberal Party1–
Peasants' Party–Lupu1+1
Total1130
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Notes[]

  1. ^ Of the five seats won by the National Union (an alliance of the , the Democratic Nationalist Party and the Agrarian Union Party), the National Party–Iorga took three and the Agrarian Union Party two.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1591 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ a b Nohlen & Stöver, p1610-1611
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1610
  4. ^ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064
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