French legislative election, 1924

11 and 25 May 1924

All 581 seats to the Chamber of Deputies 291 seats were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Édouard Herriot	Raymond Poincaré (PRDS)
Party	PRRRS	PRDS-RI
Leader's seat	Rhône	Meuse (department) (Senator)
Last election	86 seats	200 seats
Seats won	139	121
Seat change	53	79
Popular vote		1,058,293
Percentage		11.72%
Swing		5.38%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Auguste Isaac	Léon Blum
Party	FR	SFIO
Leader's seat	Rhône	Narbonne
Last election	183 seats	68 seats^*
Seats won	104	104
Seat change	79	36
Popular vote	3,190,831	1,814,000
Percentage	35.35%	20.10%
Swing	13.02%	1.12%

^* Of the 68 elected in 1919, only 53 were still SFIO members; the other 15 had joined the new French Communist Party following the Tours Congress in 1920.

Government before election

Raymond Poincaré III
AD (National Bloc)

Elected Government

Édouard Herriot I
PRRRS (Cartel des Gauches)

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The 1924 legislative election was held on 11 and 25 May 1924.

It resulted in a victory for the left-wing Cartel des Gauches, an alliance of Radicals and Socialists, which governed until July 1926 under the premierships of Édouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand.

Results

Popular Vote

Summary of the popular vote in the 11 and 25 May 1924 Chamber of Deputies election results


Alliance		Votes	%		Abbr.	Votes	%
	Cartel des Gauches	3,426,581	38.07	French Section of the Workers' International (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière)	SFIO	1,814,000	20.10
	Cartel des Gauches	3,426,581	38.07	Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste) and Republican-Socialist Party (Parti républicain-socialiste)	PRRRS	1,612,581	17.86
	Republican Federation (Fédération républicaine)				FR	3,190,831	35.35
	Democratic, Republican, and Social Party (Parti républicain démocratique et social) and Independent Radicals (Radicaux indépendents)^[1]				PRDS	1,058,293	11.72
	French Communist Party (Parti communiste français)				PCF	885,993	9.82
	Independents (Indépendents)				Ind	375,806	4.16
	Other parties				Div	89,333	0.99
Total							100
Abstention: 19.55%

↑ The Independent Radicals participated in the Cartel des Gauches but their votes are counted with the PRDS, which did not join the Cartel

Popular vote

FR			35.35%
SFIO			20.10%
PRRRS			17.86%
PRDS			11.72%
PCF			9.82%
Ind			4.16%
Others			0.99%

Parliamentary Groups

Affiliation		Seats
Far-Left
Far-Left	French Communist Party (PCF)	26
Left
	French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)	104
	Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) and French Socialist Party (PSF)	44
Centre-Left
	Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (PRRRS)	139
	Radical Left	40
Centre-Right
	Democratic Republican Left	29
	Republicans of the Left	64
Right
	Democrats	14
	Democratic and Republican Union	102
Non-inscrits
Non-inscrits		29
Total		581

References and notes

Elections and referendums in France

Presidential	1848 1965 1969 1974 1981 1988 1995 2002 2007 2012 2017

Parliamentary	1791 1792 1795 1798 1815 1816 1817 1819 1820 1824 1827 1830 1831 1834 1837 1839 1842 1846 1848 1849 1852 1857 1863 1869 1871 1876 1877 1881 1885 1889 1893 1898 1902 1906 1910 1914 1919 1924 1928 1932 1936 1945 1946 (Jun) 1946 (Nov) 1951 1956 1958 1962 1967 1968 1973 1978 1981 1986 1988 1993 1997 2002 2007 2012 2017

Regional	1986 1992 1998 2004 2010 2015

Departemental	1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1976 1979 1982 1985 1988 1992 1994 1998 2001 2004 2008 2011 2015

Municipal	1959 1965 1971 1977 1983 1989 1995 2001 2008 2014

European	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Referendums	1793 1795 1800 1802 1804 1815 1851 1852 1870 1945 1946 (May) 1946 (Oct) 1958 1961 1962 (Jun) 1962 (Oct) 1969 1972 1988 1992 2000 2005

See also: Indirect presidential and Senate elections Elections in French Guiana French Polynesia Guadeloupe Martinique Mayotte New Caledonia Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Wallis and Futuna

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