1928 French legislative election

Legislative elections were held in France on 22 and 29 April 1928. These elections saw the restoration of the two-round system that had been abolished in 1919.^[1]

1928 French legislative election

← 1924 22 and 29 April 1928 1932 →
All 604 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Registered	11,395,760
Turnout	9,548,081 (83.79%)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Raymond Poincaré Édouard Daladier Party AD PRV Leader's seat Meuse Vaucluse Seats won 126 120 Seat change 73 19 Popular vote 2,196,243 1,682,543 Percentage 23.19% 17.77% Swing 11.47pp 0.09pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Louis Marin Léon Blum Party FR SFIO Leader's seat Meurthe-et-Moselle Aude Seats won 182 99 Seat change 22 5 Popular vote 2,082,041 1,708,972 Percentage 21.99% 18.05 Swing 13.36pp 2.05pp
Prime Minister before election Raymond Poincaré Democratic Alliance Elected Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré Democratic Alliance

Campaign posters in the streets of Paris, 1928.

The result was a victory for the centre-right government of Raymond Poincaré, which had been in power since July 1926. A succession of centre-right governments followed until 1932.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Republican Left	2,196,243	23.19	74
	Independent Radicals			52
	Democratic and Republican Union	2,082,041	21.99	182
	French Section of the Workers' International	1,708,972	18.05	99
	Radical Socialist Party	1,682,543	17.77	120
	French Communist Party	1,066,099	11.26	14
	Republican-Socialist Party	432,045	4.56	30
	Conservatives and independents	215,169	2.27	26
	Independent Socialists	58,279	0.62	3
	Miscellaneous left	24,122	0.25	2
	Other parties	4,348	0.05
Total		9,469,861	100.00	602
Valid votes		9,469,861	99.18
Invalid/blank votes		78,220	0.82
Total votes		9,548,081	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		11,395,760	83.79
Source: Mackie & Rose,[2] Nohlen & Stöver,[3] France Politique

References

1. Sharp, Walter R. (1928). "The New French Electoral Law and the Elections of 1928". American Political Science Review. 22 (3): 684–698. doi:10.2307/1945623. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1945623. S2CID 147468947.
2. Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1982) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, pp128–130
3. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p692 ISBN 9783832956097

External links

• Map of Deputies elected in 1928 according to their group in the House, including overseas (in French)