French legislative election, 1902

French legislative election, 1902

27 April and 11 May 1902

All 585 seats to the Chamber of Deputies 293 seats were needed for a majority   Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Émile Combes Jules Méline Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau Party PRRRS Progressive Republicans ARD Leader's seat Charente-Inférieure (Senator) Last election 178 seats 254 seats (Opportunist Republicans) New party Seats won 233 135 95 Seat change 55 129 New party Popular vote 2,267,071 Percentage 26.9% Swing 9.5%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Jacques Piou Jean Jaurès Party Popular Liberal Action French Socialist Party Leader's seat Lozère Tarn Last election 32 seats (Ralliés) New party Seats won 75 37 Seat change 43 New party

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Government before election Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau ARD (Bloc des gauches) Elected Government Émile Combes PRRRS (Bloc des gauches)

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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.^[2]

Results

References

Sources

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

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