French legislative election, 1902

French legislative election, 1902
French Third Republic
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

Alliance 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

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

Sources


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