1926 Romanian general election

General elections were held in Romania in May and June 1926.^[1] The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 25 May, whilst the Senate was elected in two stages in May and 10 June.^[1] The result was a victory for the governing People's Party, which, together with the allied Romanian National Party (as revived by Vasile Goldiș), Magyar Party and German Party, won 292 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 107 of the 115 seats in the Senate elected through universal male vote.^[2] With some exceptions, the Peasants' Party and the main branch of the National Party ran on common lists under the name of National Peasant Bloc.

Map of results by first placed party by constituency

Results

Chamber of Deputies

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	People's Party-led alliance	1,366,160	53.38	292	+279
	National Peasant Bloc	727,202	28.42	69	New
	National Liberal Party	192,399	7.52	16	–206
	National-Christian Defense League	124,778	4.88	10	New
	Social Democrats	40,594	1.59	0	New
	Peasant Workers' Bloc	39,203	1.53	0	New
	Romanian National Party	37,672	1.47	0	New
	Peasants' Party	16,824	0.66	0	–40
	Civic Union	7,300	0.29	0	New
	Traders Council	1,861	0.07	0	New
	Other parties	5,096	0.20	0	–
Total		2,559,089	100.00	387	+15
Valid votes		2,559,089	97.58
Invalid/blank votes		63,476	2.42
Total votes		2,622,565	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,496,814	75.00
Source: Sternberger et al.,[3] Nohlen & Stöver

Senate

Party		Seats	+/–
	People's Party-led alliance	107	+105
	National Peasant Bloc	8	New
Total		115	–33
Source: Sternberger et al.,[3] Nohlen & Stöver

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1591 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, pp1609-1611
3. Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064