France 1919 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Republican Union won 201 of 616 seats with 22.7% of the vote; 71.0% of registered voters cast a ballot.

France
Held Thursday 16 October 1919

Result

309 for a majority

Republican Union201
Radical Party106
Republican Federation88
Left Republican79
Socialist Party67
Independent Radicals51
Republican-Socialist Party22
Other parties (seats only)2

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	%	Votes
Socialist Party	67	23.4	1,875,716
Republican Union	201	22.7	1,819,691
Radical Party	106	17.7	1,420,381
Republican Federation	88	14.2	1,139,794
Left Republican	79	11.1	889,177
Independent Radicals	51	6.3	504,363
Republican-Socialist Party	22	3.5	283,001
Other parties (seats only)	2

Votes by party

Socialist Party 1,875,716
Republican Union 1,819,691
Radical Party 1,420,381
Republican Federation 1,139,794
Left Republican 889,177
Independent Radicals 504,363
Republican-Socialist Party 283,001
Other parties (seats only)

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

Socialist Party23.4%
Republican Union22.7%
Radical Party17.7%
Republican Federation14.2%
Left Republican11.1%
Independent Radicals6.3%
Republican-Socialist Party3.5%

Turnout

71.0% of the 11,445,702 registered voters cast a ballot (8,130,803 ballots). 8,028,903 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Republican Union22.7% of votes32.6% of seats
Radical Party17.7% of votes17.2% of seats
Republican Federation14.2% of votes14.3% of seats
Left Republican11.1% of votes12.8% of seats
Socialist Party23.4% of votes10.9% of seats
Independent Radicals6.3% of votes8.3% of seats
Republican-Socialist Party3.5% of votes3.6% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.7 by votes and 5.2 by seats; Socialist Party led Republican Union 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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