French legislative election, 1902

27 April and 11 May 1902

All 585 seats to the Chamber of Deputies

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Émile Combes	Jules Méline	Jacques Piou
Party	Radical	Liberal Republican Union	Liberal Action
Alliance	Lefts Bloc
Leader's seat	Charente-Maritime	Vosges	Lozère
Seats won	295	127	89
Seat change	new party	new party	new party
Popular vote	4,051,535	1,629,483	1,350,581
Percentage	50.09%	21.56%	15.11%

Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

Prime Minister before election

Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau
Democratic Republican Alliance

Elected Prime Minister

Émile Combes
Radical-Socialist Party

Legislative elections were held in France on 27 April and 11 May 1902.

These elections were a victory for the Bloc des gauches alliance between Socialists, Radicals, and the left wing of the Republicans, over the anti-Dreyfusard right wing of the Republicans, the progressistes. The Bloc des gauches had been brought together to support the "Republican Defense Cabinet" (gouvernement de défense républicaine) formed by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau following the assault on the newly elected President, Émile Loubet, on the Longchamp Racecourse on 4 June 1899, during the Dreyfus affair.

However, Waldeck-Rousseau's own supporters (the ARD) took few seats in the election compared to the Radicals and Socialists. After the election, President Loubet invited the Radical Émile Combes to form a government, which lasted until January 1905, when the Socialists withdrew from the Bloc des gauches.^[1]

Results

	Party	Votes	% Vote	Seats
	Progressive Republicans	1,629,483	19.30%	107
Bloc des gauches	Radicals	1,445,415	17.12%	121
	Popular Liberal Action	1,350,581	16.00%	85
	Nationalists	1,099,137	13.02%	56
Bloc des gauches	Republican Left	1,087,048	12.87%	79
Bloc des gauches	Radical-Socialists	854,269	10.12%	77
Bloc des gauches	French Socialist Party	664,803	7.87%	37
	Socialist Party of France	210,400	2.49%	9
	Monarchists	42,406	0.50%	3
	Miscellaneous	59,822	0.70%	1

Popular vote

PR			19.30%
Radicals			17.12%
ALP			16.00%
Nationalists			13.02%
Republican Left			12.87%
Radical-Socialists			10.12%
PSF			7.87%
PSdF			2.49%
Others			1.20%

References

↑ Gildea, R., Children of the Revolution, London, 2008, p. 278-282

Sources

Lingane, les élections de 1902
L'année Politique 1902, by André Daniel, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1903

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