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
Held in wartime. This election took place while the country was engaged in Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920). Conflicts →
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
Republican Union
Auguste Isaac · 22.3% of votes
201
seats
Radical Party
17.4% of votes
106
seats
Conservatives and independents
14.0% of votes
88
seats
Democratic Republican Alliance
10.9% of votes
79
seats
French Section of the Workers' International
21.2% of votes
67
seats
Independent Radicals
6.2% of votes
51
seats
Republican-Socialist Party
3.5% of votes
17
seats
Independent Socialists
1.8% of votes
5
seats