France 1906 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Radical Party won 239 of 575 seats with 28.5% of the vote; 79.8% of registered voters cast a ballot.

France
Held Sunday 20 May 1906

Result

288 for a majority

Radical Party239
Republican Federation107
Progressive Republicans67
Socialist Party53
Left Republican52
Independent Radicals39
Independent Socialists18

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	%	Votes
Republican Federation	107	29.2	2,572,000
Radical Party	239	28.5	2,515,000
Progressive Republicans	67	14.1	1,239,000
Socialist Party	53	9.9	877,000
Left Republican	52	8.0	704,000
Independent Radicals	39	7.8	692,000
Independent Socialists	18	2.3	205,000

Votes by party

Republican Federation 2,572,000
Radical Party 2,515,000
Progressive Republicans 1,239,000
Socialist Party 877,000
Left Republican 704,000
Independent Radicals 692,000
Independent Socialists 205,000

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

For France ParlGov gives the first round's votes and the seats after the second round.

ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.

Share of the vote

Republican Federation29.2%
Radical Party28.5%
Progressive Republicans14.1%
Socialist Party9.9%
Left Republican8.0%
Independent Radicals7.8%
Independent Socialists2.3%

Turnout

79.8% of the 11,340,527 registered voters cast a ballot (9,050,858 ballots). 8,814,000 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Radical Party28.5% of votes41.6% of seats
Republican Federation29.2% of votes18.6% of seats
Progressive Republicans14.1% of votes11.7% of seats
Socialist Party9.9% of votes9.2% of seats
Left Republican8.0% of votes9.0% of seats
Independent Radicals7.8% of votes6.8% of seats
Independent Socialists2.3% of votes3.1% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 12.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.8 by votes and 4.1 by seats; Republican Federation led Radical Party by 0.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal

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