French legislative election, 1914

26 April and 10 May 1914

All 595 seats to the Chamber of Deputies

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Joseph Caillaux	Jean Jaurès	Raymond Poincaré
Party	PRRRS	SFIO	PRD
Leader's seat	Sarthe	Tarn	Meuse
Seats won	195	102	66
Seat change	66	5	47
Popular vote	2,930,018	1,413,044	2,407,259
Percentage	32.61%	16.97%	14.64%
Swing	0.12%	3.77%	0.10%

Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

Prime Minister before election

Gaston Doumergue
Radical-Socialist Party

Elected Prime Minister

René Viviani
Republican-Socialist Party

The 1914 general elections were held on 26 April and 10 May 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War I. The Radical Party, a classical Liberal party, won a landslide victory, though the entirety of the chambers, from Catholics to socialists, united during the war to form the Union sacrée.

Results

Popular Vote

	Votes	% Vote
Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party and all RI	2,930,018	34.75%
Democratic Republican Alliance	2,407,259	28.55%
French Section of the Workers International	1,413,044	16.76%
Popular Liberal Action	956,261	11.34%
Republican Federation	397,547	4.72%
Republican-Socialist Party	326,927	3.88%

Popular vote

PRRRS			34.75%
ARD			28.55%
SFIO			16.76%
ALP			11.34%
FR			4.72%
PRS			3.88%

Parliamentary Groups

Affiliation		Seats
Left
	French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)	102
	Republican-Socialist Party (PRS)	24
Centre-Left and Centre
	Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (PRRRS) and non-inscrit Radicals	195
	Republican Union (ARD group and ARD-FR joint group)	88
	Republicans of the Left (RI-ARD joint group)	66
Right
	Republican Federation	37
	Popular Liberal Action	23
	Miscellaneous Right	15
Non-inscrits
Non-inscrits		51
Total		601

References

Sources

Roi et President

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