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Campaign posters in the streets of Paris, 1928.

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]

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

PartyVotes%Seats
Republican Left2,196,24323.1974
Independent Radicals52
Democratic and Republican Union2,082,04121.99182
French Section of the Workers' International1,708,97218.0599
Radical Socialist Party1,682,54317.77120
French Communist Party1,066,09911.2614
Republican-Socialist Party432,0454.5630
Conservatives and independents215,1692.2726
Independent Socialists58,2790.623
Miscellaneous left24,1220.252
Other parties4,3480.05
Total9,469,861100.00602
Valid votes9,469,86199.18
Invalid/blank votes78,2200.82
Total votes9,548,081100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,395,76083.79
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
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