1936 French legislative election

1936 French legislative election
France
← 1932 26 April and 3 May 1936 1945 →

All 612 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
307 seats needed for a majority
Turnout84.45%
Party Leader % Seats +/–
Popular Front
SFIO Léon Blum 19.86 149 +20
PCF Maurice Thorez 15.26 72 +60
PRS Édouard Daladier 14.45 111 −46
URS & DVG Marcel Déat 7.60 57 +20
National Front
GR Pierre-Étienne Flandin 25.76 95 −39
UR Louis Marin 16.92 128 +52
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Government before Government after
Albert Sarraut II
PRRRS (Republican coalition)
Léon Blum I
SFIO (Popular Front)
Political poster (1936) claiming that the Popular Front was under Soviet control.

Legislative elections were held in France on 26 April and 3 May 1936, the last elections before World War II. The number of candidates set a record, with 4,807 running for election to the Chamber of Deputies. In the Seine Department alone, there were 1,402 candidates.

The Popular Front, composed of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the Radical-Socialists, the French Section of the Communist International (SFIC), and miscellaneous leftists, won power from the broad Republican coalitions that had governed since the 6 February 1934 crisis. Léon Blum became president of the council.

Results

Vote strength for the Popular Front

The SFIC, predecessor of the Communist Party, doubled its score from 11 SFIC and 9 Union Ouvrière deputies in 1932 to 72 in 1936. The party made gains in industrialized suburbs and working-class areas of major cities. They also progressed in rural central and southwestern France (e.g., Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne) The Radicals lost votes to the SFIO and SFIC, but also to the right. The SFIO declined slightly. In working-class suburbs, the party declined, but it gained votes in Brittany, to the dismay of the right. Only 174 seats were elected in the first round, 424 were decided in a run-off. The right fared better in the second round.

Party or allianceVotes%Seats
Popular FrontFrench Section of the Workers' International1,955,30619.86149
French Communist Party1,502,40415.2672
Radical Socialist Party1,422,61114.45111
Socialist Republican Union748,6007.6029
Miscellaneous left28
Total5,628,92157.16389
National FrontRepublican Left2,536,29425.7695
Republican Union1,666,00416.92128
Total4,202,29842.67223
Others16,0470.160
Total9,847,266100.00612
Valid votes9,847,26699.09
Invalid/blank votes90,6920.91
Total votes9,937,958100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,768,49184.45
Source: Mackie & Rose, Nohlen & Stöver, Quid

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