1914 French legislative election

The 1914 general elections were held on 26 April and 10 May 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War I. The Radical Party, a classical Liberal party, won a landslide victory, though the entirety of the chambers, from Catholics to socialists, united during the war to form the Union sacrée.

1914 French legislative election
26 April and 10 May 1914
All 601 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
Registered11,515,672
Turnout8,431,056 (73.2%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Joseph Caillaux Jean Jaurès Raymond Poincaré
Party PRRRS SFIO PRD
Leader's seat Sarthe Tarn Meuse
Seats won 195 102 66
Seat change 66 5 47
Popular vote 1,530,188 1,413,044 819184
Percentage 18.15% 16.76% 9.72%
Swing 0.12% 3.77% 0.10%
Composition of the Chamber of Deputies
Prime Minister before election

Gaston Doumergue
Independent Radicals

 Elected Prime Minister

René Viviani
Republican-Socialist Party

Results
Party Votes % Vote
  French Section of the Workers International 1,413,044 16.76%
  Republican-Socialist Party 326,927 3.88%
  Radical-Socialist, Radical and Republic Party 1,530,188 18.15%
Non-PRRS Radical Republicans 1,399,830 16.6%
  Republicans of the Left 819,184 9.72%
  Republican Federation 1,588,075 18.84%
  Popular Liberal Action, monarchist and nationalist 1,297,722 15.39%
Miscellaneous and Other 56,086 0.7%
Popular vote
FR
 
 18.8%
PRRRS
 
 18.15%
SFIO
 
 16.76%
RI
 
 16.6%
ALP
 
 15.5%
RG
 
 9.7%
PRS
 
 3.88%

Parliamentary Groups
Affiliation Party Seats
Left
  French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 102
  Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) 24
Centre-Left and Centre
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (PRRRS) and non-inscrit Radicals 195
  Republican Union (ARD group and ARD-FR joint group) 88
  Republicans of the Left (RI-ARD joint group) 66
Right
  Republican Federation 37
  Popular Liberal Action 23
  Miscellaneous Right 15
Non-inscrits
51
Total 601

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