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1902 French legislative election

1902 French legislative election

← 1898 27 April and 11 May 1902 1906 →

All 589 seats the Chamber of Deputies
295 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau Jules Méline Jacques Piou (lost election)
Alliance Left Bloc Progressives Conservatives
Seats won 338 127 124

Prime Minister before election

Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau
ARD

Elected Prime Minister

Émile Combes
Radicals

Legislative elections were held in France on 27 April and 11 May 1902. The result was a victory for the Bloc des gauches alliance between Socialists, Radicals, and the left wing of the Republicans, over the anti-Dreyfusard right wing of the Republicans, the progressistes. The Bloc des gauches had been brought together to support the "Republican Defense Cabinet" (gouvernement de défense républicaine) formed by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau following the assault on the newly elected president, Émile Loubet, on the Longchamp Racecourse on 4 June 1899, during the Dreyfus affair.

However, Waldeck-Rousseau's own supporters (the ARD) took few seats in the election compared to the Radicals and Socialists. After the election, President Loubet invited the Radical Émile Combes to form a government, which lasted until January 1905, when the Socialists withdrew from the Bloc des gauches.[1]

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats
Progressive Republicans2,501,42929.73127
Left Republicans62
Independent Radicals1,413,93116.81129
Nationalists1,194,90014.2089
Reactionaries1,188,18014.12
Socialists531,0876.3143
Revolutionary Socialists344,4454.09
Radical-Socialists853,14010.14104
Popular Liberal Action385,6154.5835
Total8,412,727100.00589
Registered voters/turnout11,058,702
Source: France-Politique, Rois et Presidents

References

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  1. ^ Gildea, R., Children of the Revolution, London, 2008, pp. 278-282
  • L'année Politique 1902, by André Daniel, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1903
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