1928 French legislative election

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]

1928 French legislative election

← 1924 22 and 29 April 1928 1932 →

All 604 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Registered11,395,760
Turnout9,548,081 (83.79%)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Raymond Poincaré Édouard Daladier
Party AD PRV
Leader's seat Meuse Vaucluse
Seats won 126 120
Seat change Increase 73 Decrease 19
Popular vote 2,196,243 1,682,543
Percentage 23.19% 17.77%
Swing Increase 11.47pp Decrease 0.09pp

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Louis Marin Léon Blum
Party FR SFIO
Leader's seat Meurthe-et-Moselle Aude
Seats won 182 99
Seat change Decrease 22 Decrease 5
Popular vote 2,082,041 1,708,972
Percentage 21.99% 18.05
Swing Decrease 13.36pp Decrease 2.05pp

Prime Minister before election

Raymond Poincaré
Democratic Alliance

Elected Prime Minister

Raymond Poincaré
Democratic Alliance

Campaign posters in the streets of Paris, 1928.

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

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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

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  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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