1919 French Legislative Election
Horizon-blue chamber16 and 30 November 1919 · The Third Republic · 613 seats
The formation of electoral lists needed to take into account of three factors: on one hand, the tendency of the opinion to think that the Union sacrée needed to be prolonged in peacetime in order to solve the new problems of France of the post-war period; on the other hand, the refusal of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), then in crisis, to discuss the qu
Prime Minister before
Georges Clemenceau
Independent
Prime Minister after
Alexandre Millerand
Independent
Largest force
Republican Union
201 of 613 seats
Turnout
72.1%
The result
| Share of the chamber | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican Union | Auguste Isaac | 201 | — | 1 819 691 | 22.3% | — | |
| Radical Party | — | 106 | — | 1 420 381 | 17.4% | — | |
| Conservatives and independents | — | 88 | — | 1 139 794 | 14.0% | — | |
| Democratic Republican Alliance | — | 79 | — | 889 177 | 10.9% | — | |
| French Section of the Workers' International | — | 67 | — | 1 728 663 | 21.2% | — | |
| Independent Radicals | — | 51 | — | 504 363 | 6.2% | — | |
| Republican-Socialist Party | — | 17 | — | 283 001 | 3.5% | — | |
| Independent Socialists | — | 5 | — | 147 053 | 1.8% | — |