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 radical and increasingly centre-right party, won a landslide victory, though, with the outbreak of the First World War, many in the Chamber, ranging from Catholics to socialists, united to form the Union sacrée.

1914 French legislative election
26 April and 10 May 1914
All 602 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
302 seats needed for a majority
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 192 102 77
Seat change 69 27 11
Popular vote 1,530,188 1,413,044 819,184
Percentage 18.15% 16.76% 9.72%
Swing 21.02% 3.85% 1.41%
Prime Minister before election

Gaston Doumergue
Independent Radicals

 Elected Prime Minister

René Viviani
Republican-Socialist Party

Excluding one seat in Martinique that was not proclaimed, of the 602 seats up for election 192 returned new members.[1]

Alexandre Ribot, a member of the Republican Democratic Party, negotiated a government on 9 June 1914, but its perceived overly-centrist leanings lead much of the left-wing of the Radical Party to rebel against it, bringing it down on the day it was presented to the chamber. Ribot was quickly succeeded by René Viviani of the Republican-Socialist Party, who formed a centre-left government on 13 June, only four days later.

Results
Party Votes[2] % Seats[1]
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party 1,530,188 18.15 192
  Republican Federation and Miscellaneous right 1,588,075 18.84 88
  Left Republicans (PRD, FG, and Republican-Socialists) 819,184 9.72 77
  Independent Radicals and the Democratic Left 1,399,830 16.60 66
Government majority 5,337,277 63.30 361
  French Section of the Workers' International 1,413,044 16.76 102
  Republican-Socialist Party (Augagneurin) 326,927 3.88 22
  Revolutionary Socialists and Independent Socialists 56,086 0.7 4
  Miscellaneous and Other 1
Parliamentary left 1,796,057 21.30 164
  Popular Liberal Action, nationalists, and reactionaries 1,297,722 15.39 38
  Independent Republicans 12
Parliamentary right 1,297,722 15.39 50
Total 8,431,056 100 602
Popular vote
FR et Droit
 
 18.84%
PRRRS
 
 18.15%
SFIO
 
 16.76%
RI et GD
 
 16.60%
ALP et misc
 
 15.39%
Républicaines de gauche
 
 9.72%
PRS
 
 3.88%

References
  1. Le Matin, 12 May 1914
  2. French political website

Sources
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