1922 Romanian general election

General elections were held in Romania between 1 and 3 March 1922. In the first stage between 1 and 3 March, seats in the Senate were elected. In the second stage between 5 and 7 March the Chamber of Deputies was elected, and in the third and final stage from 9 to 11 March, additional Senate seats were elected.[1] The result was a victory for the governing National Liberal Party, which won 222 of the 372 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 111 of the 148 seats in the Senate.[2]

1922 Romanian general election
1–3 March 1922
All 372 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
All 148 seats in the Senate
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Ion I. C. Brătianu Constantin Stere
Party PNL PȚ
Leader's seat Gorj County Soroca County
Seats won 222 C / 111 S 40 C / 11 S
Seat change 206 C / 110 S 15 C / 1 S
Prime Minister before election

Take Ionescu
Conservative-Democratic Party

 Subsequent Prime Minister

Ion I. C. Brătianu
National Liberal Party

Both houses were combined to form a Constitutional Assembly,[3] which passed the 1923 constitution.

Results
Party Votes % Chamber Senate
Seats +/– Seats +/–
National Liberal Party222+206111+110
Peasants' Party40+1511+1
Romanian National Party26–19–5
Bessarabian Peasants' Party22–113+7
Democratic Union Party15+1400
People's Party13–1932–122
Democratic Nationalist Party5–2–
Hungarian Union3New0New
Conservative-Democratic Party3–140–4
Federation of Socialist Parties from Romania1New0New
Other parties22–0–
Invalid/blank votes–––––
Total2,210,370100372+6148–18
Registered voters/turnout2,908,01576.0––––
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1591 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1599
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1592
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