1924 French legislative election

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11 May 1924 (first round)
25 May 1924 (second round)

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All 574 seats in the Chamber of Deputies

Turnout

83.03%

Party	Leader	%	Seats	+/–
URD	Auguste Isaac	35.35	204	+3
SFIO	Léon Blum	20.10	104	+37
PRS–PRS	Édouard Herriot	17.86	162	+39
RI–GR	Raymond Poincaré	11.72	53	−77
PCF	Louis Sellier [fr]	9.82	26	New
DVD	–	4.16	25	−63

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Prime Minister before	Prime Minister after
Raymond Poincaré Democratic Alliance	Édouard Herriot Radical-Socialist Party

Legislative elections were held in France on 11 and 25 May 1924.^[1] They resulted in a victory for the left-wing Cartel des Gauches, an alliance of Radicals and Socialists, which governed until July 1926 under the premierships of Édouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Democratic and Republican Union	3,190,831	35.35	204
	French Section of the Workers' International	1,814,000	20.10	104
	Radical Socialist Party–Republican-Socialist Party	1,612,581	17.86	162
	Independent Radicals–Republican Left	1,058,293	11.72	53
	French Communist Party	885,993	9.82	26
	Conservatives and independents	375,806	4.16	25
	Other parties	89,333	0.99	0
Total		9,026,837	100.00	574

Valid votes		9,026,837	98.21
Invalid/blank votes		164,972	1.79
Total votes		9,191,809	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		11,070,360	83.03
Source: Mackie & Rose,^[2] Nohlen & Stöver,^[3] France Politique

References

^ Sharp, Walter R. (1924). "The French Elections". American Political Science Review. 18 (3): 533–540. doi:10.2307/1944175. ISSN 0003-0554.
^ Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1982) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130
^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p692 ISBN 9783832956097