1932 Romanian general election

General elections were held in Romania in July 1932.[1] The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 17 July, whilst the Senate was elected in three stages on 20, 24 and 26 July.[1] The result was a victory for the National Peasants' Party-German Party alliance, which won 274 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 104 of the 113 seats in the Senate elected through universal male vote.[2] Of the 274 Chamber seats, 265 were taken by the National Peasant's Party and nine by the German Party.[2]

1932 Romanian general election

17–26 July 1932
All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies All 113 seats in the Senate
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Iuliu Maniu Ion Duca Gheorghe Brătianu Party PNȚ+PG PNL PNL–Brătianu Leader since 1926 1930 1930 Seats won 104 S / 274 C 1 S / 28 C 0 S / 14 D Seat change 103 S / 244 C S / 52 C 0 S / 2 D Popular vote 1,203,700 D 407,023 D 195,048 D Percentage 41.5% 14% 6.7%
Prime Minister before election Alexandru Vaida-Voevod PNȚ Elected Prime Minister Alexandru Vaida-Voevod PNȚ

Results

Party	Chamber				Senate
	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
National Peasants' Party–German Party	1,203,700	41.5	274	+244			104	+103
National Liberal Party	407,023	14.0	28	–			1	–
National Liberal Party-Brătianu	195,048	6.7	14	+2			0	0
Peasants' Party–Lupu	170,860	5.9	12	+5			1	+1
National-Christian Defense League	159,071	5.5	11	+3			2	+2
Magyar Party	141,894	4.9	14	+4			3	–1
National Agrarian Party	108,857	3.8	8	New			0	New
Social Democratic Party	101,068	3.5	7	+1			0	0
Codreanu Group	70,674	2.4	5	New			0	New
National Union^[a]	68,116	2.3	5	–			0	–
Jewish Party	67,582	2.3	5	+1			0	0
People's Party	64,525	2.2	4	–6			0	0
Traders Council	45,851	1.6	0	New			0	New
Democratic Peasants' Party–Stere	41,454	1.4	0	–5			0	0
Conservative Party	18,643	0.6	0	New			0	New
Agrarian League	14,831	0.5	0	New			0	New
Peasant Workers' Bloc	9,441	0.3	0	–5			0	0
Civic Union	1,503	0.1	0	New			0	New
Other parties	9,178	0.3	0	–			0	–
Democratic Peasant Party	–	–	–	–			2	New
Invalid/blank votes	87,810	–	–	–		–	–	–
Total	2,987,129	100	387	0			113	0
Registered voters/turnout	4,220,731	70.8	–	–			–	–
Source: Sternberger et al.,[3] Nohlen & Stöver

^a Of the five seats won by the National Union (an alliance of the National Party–Iorga, the Democratic Nationalist Party and the Agrarian Union Party), the National Party–Iorga took three and the Agrarian Union Party two.[4]

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1591 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1610-1611
3. Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064
4. Nohlen & Stöver, p1610