1910 French legislative election

The 1910 general election was held on 24 April and 8 May 1910.

1910 French legislative election
24 April and 8 May 1910
All 595 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
298 seats needed for a majority
Registered11,058,702
Turnout8,563,716 (77.4%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Aristide Briand Jean Jaurès Raymond Poincaré
Party PRRRS SFIO ARD
Leader's seat Loire-Inférieure Tarn Meuse
Seats won 261 75 66
Seat change 128 21 24
Popular vote 3,312,002 1,091,934 941,015
Percentage 39.17% 12.91% 11.13%
Swing 10.64% 3.00% 0.82%
Prime Minister before election

Aristide Briand
Republican-Socialist Party

 Elected Prime Minister

Aristide Briand
Republican-Socialist Party

The elections resulted in a huge victory for the governing coalition of Radicals and Left Republicans (in large part due to the effective merger of the Radicals and Independent Radicals), allowing the incumbent premier Aristide Briand to form a second government.

Aristide Briand, himself an Independent Socialist, would unite his small, loosely-aligned, pro-government faction of socialists into the Republican-Socialist Party in 1911.

Results
Party Votes[1] % Seats[2]
  Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party 3,312,002 39.17 261
  Democratic Republican Alliance 941,015 11.13 66
  Independent Socialists[3] 316,692 3.75 24
  Independent Radicals 23,339 0.28 1
Centre-left majority 4,593,048 54.31 352
  Republican Federation 787,006 9.31 59
  Conservatives 778,692 9.21 51
  Popular Liberal Action 737,616 8.72 30
  Independent Republicans 316,299 3.74 21
  Nationalists [fr] 149,564 1.77 7
Right-wing opposition 2,769,177 32.75 168
  French Section of the Workers International 1,091,934 12.91 75
  Revolutionary Socialists 2,903 0.003 0
Total 8,457,062 100 595
Popular vote
PRRRS
 
 39.17%
SFIO
 
 12.91%
ARD
 
 11.13%
FR
 
 9.31%
Conservatives
 
 9.21%
ALP
 
 8.72%
SI
 
 3.71%
Nationalists
 
 1.77%
Others
 
 4.07%

Sources

References
  1. Le Matin, 27 April 1910
  2. Le Matin, 10 May 1910
  3. Many Independent Socialists coalesced in 1911 to form the Republican-Socialist Party.


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