France 1914 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Republican Union won 150 of 586 seats with 18.8% of the vote; 77.2% of registered voters cast a ballot.

France
Held Sunday 10 May 1914

Result

294 for a majority

Republican Union150
Radical Party137
Socialist Party103
Independent Radicals96
Republican Federation73
Republican-Socialist Party27

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	%	Votes
Republican Union	150	18.8	1,588,075
Radical Party	137	18.1	1,530,188
Socialist Party	103	16.8	1,413,044
Independent Radicals	96	16.6	1,399,830
Republican Federation	73	15.4	1,297,722
Left Republican	0	9.7	819,184
Republican-Socialist Party	27	3.9	326,927

Votes by party

Republican Union 1,588,075
Radical Party 1,530,188
Socialist Party 1,413,044
Independent Radicals 1,399,830
Republican Federation 1,297,722
Left Republican 819,184
Republican-Socialist Party 326,927

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 Union18.8%
Radical Party18.1%
Socialist Party16.8%
Independent Radicals16.6%
Republican Federation15.4%
Left Republican9.7%
Republican-Socialist Party3.9%

Turnout

77.2% of the 11,185,078 registered voters cast a ballot (8,636,567 ballots). 8,431,056 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Republican Union18.8% of votes25.6% of seats
Radical Party18.1% of votes23.4% of seats
Socialist Party16.8% of votes17.6% of seats
Independent Radicals16.6% of votes16.4% of seats
Republican Federation15.4% of votes12.5% of seats
Republican-Socialist Party3.9% of votes4.6% of seats
Left Republican9.7% of votes0.0% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.3 by votes and 5.1 by seats; Republican Union 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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