French legislative election, 1924

11 and 25 May 1924

All 581 seats to the Chamber of Deputies

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Édouard Herriot	Auguste Isaac	Raymond Poincaré
Party	Radical	Republican Federation	Democratic Alliance
Alliance	Lefts Cartel
Leader's seat	Rhône	Rhône	Meuse
Seats won	287	116	93
Seat change	new party	96	61
Popular vote	3,426,581	3,190,831	1,058,293
Percentage	38.07	35.35%	11.72%

Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

Prime Minister before election

Raymond Poincaré
Democratic Alliance

Elected Prime Minister

Édouard Herriot
Radical-Socialist Party

The 1924 legislative election was held on 11 and 25 May 1924.

It resulted in a victory for the left-wing Cartel des Gauches, an alliance of Radicals and Socialists, which governed until July 1926 under the premierships of Édouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand.

Results

Summary of the popular vote in the 11 and 25 May 1924 Chamber of Deputies election results


Alliance		Votes	%		Abbr.	Votes	%
	Cartel des Gauches	3,426,581	38.07	French Section of the Workers' International (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière)	SFIO	1,814,000	20.10
	Cartel des Gauches	3,426,581	38.07	Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste) and Republican-Socialist Party (Parti républicain-socialiste)	PRRRS	1,612,581	17.86
	Republican Federation (Fédération républicaine)				FR	3,190,831	35.35
	Democratic, Republican, and Social Party (Parti républicain démocratique et social) and Independent Radicals (Radicaux indépendents)^[1]				PRDS	1,058,293	11.72
	French Communist Party (Parti communiste français)				PCF	885,993	9.82
	Independents (Indépendents)				Ind	375,806	4.16
	Other parties				Div	89,333	0.99
Total							100
Abstention: 19.55%

↑ The Independent Radicals participated in the Cartel des Gauches but their votes are counted with the PRDS, which did not join the Cartel

Affiliation		Seats
Far-Left
Far-Left	French Communist Party (PCF)	26
Left
	French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)	104
	Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) and French Socialist Party (PSF)	44
Centre-Left
	Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (PRRRS)	139
	Radical Left	40
Centre-Right
	Democratic Republican Left	29
	Republicans of the Left	64
Right
	Democrats	14
	Democratic and Republican Union	102
Non-inscrits
Non-inscrits		29
Total		581

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