Romanian general election, 1931

General elections were held in Romania in June 1931.[1] The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 1 June, whilst the Senate was elected in three stages on 4, 6 and 8 June.[1] The result was a victory for the governing National Union, an alliance of the National Party, the National Liberal Party, the German Party, the Agrarian Union Party, the Vlad Ţepeş League, the Agrarian League and several other parties.[2][3] The Union won 289 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 108 of the 113 seats in the Senate elected through universal vote.[3] The five seats won by the Communist-dominated Peasant Workers' Bloc were ultimately invalidated by the new Parliament.

Results

Party Chamber Senate
Votes % Seats +/– Votes % Seats +/–
National Union[a]1,389,90148.9289–108–
National Peasants' Party438,74715.430–2961–104
National Liberal Party-Brătianu173,5866.112New0New
People's Party141,1415.010–00
Magyar Party139,0034.910–64+1
National-Christian Defense League113,8634.08+800
Peasants' Party–Lupu100,6823.57+200
Social Democratic Party94,9573.36–300
League against Usury–PTD-Stere[b]80,5702.86New0New
Peasant Workers' Bloc73,7162.65+500
Jewish Party64,1932.34+40–2
Legion of the Archangel Michael30,7831.10New0New
Other parties3,4120.10–0–
Invalid/blank votes82,568––––––
Total2,927,1221003870113+3
Registered voters/turnout4,038,46472.5––––
Source: Sternberger et al.,[4] Nohlen & Stöver
a Of the National Union deputy seats, eighty were taken by the National Liberal Party-Duca, ten by the German Party and eight by the Agrarian League.[5]
b Of the six seats won by the League against Usury and Democratic Peasants' Party–Stere, five were taken by the PTD-S and one by the League against Usury.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1591 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1601
  3. 1 2 Nohlen & Stöver, p1610-1611
  4. ↑ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064
  5. ↑ Adevărul no. 14552 (1 June 1931), p. 5
  6. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1610
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.