1906 French legislative election

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6 and 20 May 1906

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All 585 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
293 seats needed for a majority


Leader	Ferdinand Sarrien	Jacques Piou	Auguste Isaac
Alliance	Left Bloc Parties PRRRS ARD Independent Radicals Independent Socialists	Conservatives Parties Liberal Action Nationalists Reactionaries	Progressives^[a]
Seats won	357	108	66
Seat change	19	16	61
Popular vote	4,115,530	2,571,765	1,238,048
Percentage	46.70%	29.18%	14.05%

Prime Minister before election

Ferdinand Sarrien
Radical-Socialist Party

Elected Prime Minister

Ferdinand Sarrien
Radical-Socialist Party

Legislative elections were held in France on 6 and 20 May 1906. The elections produced an increased majority for the governing coalition between the Radicals (PRRRS) and the left Republicans (ARD), which had held power under the premierships of Maurice Rouvier and Ferdinand Sarrien since January 1905.

Sarrien resigned on 20 October for reasons of health. Georges Clemenceau, also a Radical, replaced him, and remained premier until July 1909, after which he went on to become one of the longest-serving French Prime Ministers. The Bloc des gauches formally dissolved with Clemenceau's coming to power.

Electoral system

By the law of 13 February 1889 [fr], French legislative elections would take place utilising a first past the post system to elect one deputy in each constituency to the Chamber of Deputies, with some arrondissements being divided into multiple constituencies, though most containing only one.^[1]

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Conservatives (incl. ALP)	2,571,765	29.18	78
	Nationalist Party	2,571,765	29.18	30
	Radical-Socialist Party	2,514,508	28.53	132
	Progressives	1,238,048	14.05	66
	French Section of the Workers' International	877,221	9.95	54
	Democratic Republican Alliance	703,912	7.99	90
	Independent Radicals	692,029	7.85	115
	Independent Socialists	205,081	2.33	20
	Others	9,924	0.11	0
Total		8,812,488	100.00	585

Registered voters/turnout		11,341,062	–
Source: Rois et Presidents, France-Politique

Notes

^ By 1906, the Progressive Republicans and conservative Moderate Republicans had reconciled into a single political party, called the Republican Federation, though candidates elected from the party sat in the Chamber of Deputies as Progressive Republicans until 1914.