French legislative election, 1914

French legislative election, 1914
26 April and 10 May 1914
All 595 seats to the Chamber of Deputies

  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Joseph Caillaux Jean Jaurès Raymond Poincaré
Party PRRRS SFIO PRD
Leader's seat Sarthe Tarn Meuse
Seats won 195 102 66
Seat change Decrease 66 Decrease 5 Decrease 47
Popular vote 2,930,018 1,413,044 2,407,259
Percentage 32.61% 16.97% 14.64%
Swing Decrease 0.12% Decrease 3.77% Decrease 0.10%
Composition of the Chamber of Deputies
Prime Minister before election

Gaston Doumergue
Radical-Socialist Party

 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 classical Liberal party, won a landslide victory, though the entirety of the chambers, from Catholics to socialists, united during the war to form the Union sacrée.

Results

Party Votes % Vote
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party and all RI 2,930,018 34.75%
  Democratic Republican Alliance 2,407,259 28.55%
  French Section of the Workers International 1,413,044 16.76%
  Popular Liberal Action 956,261 11.34%
  Republican Federation 397,547 4.72%
  Republican-Socialist Party 326,927 3.88%
Popular vote
PRRRS
 
 34.75%
ARD
 
 28.55%
SFIO
 
 16.76%
ALP
 
 11.34%
FR
 
 4.72%
PRS
 
 3.88%

Parliamentary Groups

Affiliation Party Seats
Left
  French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 102
  Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) 24
Centre-Left and Centre
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (PRRRS) and non-inscrit Radicals 195
  Republican Union (ARD group and ARD-FR joint group) 88
  Republicans of the Left (RI-ARD joint group) 66
Right
  Republican Federation 37
  Popular Liberal Action 23
  Miscellaneous Right 15
Non-inscrits
51
Total 601

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