1910 French legislative election

Legislative elections were held in France on 24 April and 8 May 1910. The elections resulted in a clear victory for the forces of electoral reform and the governing coalition of Radicals, socialist independents and Left Republicans, allowing the incumbent premier Aristide Briand to form his second government.

1910 French legislative election

← 1906 24 April 1910 (first round)
8 May 1910 (second round)
1914 →

All 587 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
294 seats needed for a majority
Registered11,426,736
Turnout77.41%
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Émile Combes Jean Jaurès
Party PRV SFIO
Seats won 148 75
Seat change Increase 16 Increase 21
Popular vote 1,727,064 1,110,561
Percentage 20.45% 13.15%
Swing Decrease 8.08pp Increase 2.96pp

Prime Minister before election

Aristide Briand
Independent Socialist

Elected Prime Minister

Aristide Briand
Independent Socialist

Voters going to the polls in Guadeloupe, 1910.

Briand, himself an Independent Socialist, would unite his small, loosely-aligned, pro-government faction of socialists and radicals into the Republican-Socialist Party in 1911.

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats
Radical Socialists1,727,06420.45148
Conservatives1,602,20918.9786
Republican Union1,472,44217.43116
French Section of the Workers' International1,110,56113.1575
Republican Left1,018,70412.0670
Independent Radicals966,40711.4460
Independent Socialists345,2024.0925
Popular Liberal Action153,2311.815
Others49,9530.592
Total8,445,773100.00587
Valid votes8,445,77395.49
Invalid/blank votes399,2054.51
Total votes8,844,978100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,426,73677.41
Source: Mackie & Rose,[1] France Politique

Sources

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References

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  1. ^ Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130