French legislative election, 1902
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Legislative elections were held in France
on 27 April and 11 May 1902.
This was a success for the Left Block
which was composed by alliance between Socialists, Radicals, and the left-wing of the old Opportunist Republicans
which merged after the Affaire Dreyfus crisis, to save the parlementary form of the republic.
France
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on 27 April and 11 May 1902.
This was a success for the Left Block
Bloc des gauches
The Bloc des gauches , aka Bloc républicain was a coalition of Republican political forces created during the French Third Republic in 1899 to contest the 1902 legislative elections...
which was composed by alliance between Socialists, Radicals, and the left-wing of the old Opportunist Republicans
Opportunist Republicans
The Opportunist Republicans , also known as the Moderates , were a faction of French Republicans who believed, after the proclamation of the Third Republic in 1870, that the regime could only be consolidated by successive phases...
which merged after the Affaire Dreyfus crisis, to save the parlementary form of the republic.
Results
| Alliance | Party | Votes | % Vote | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Republicans Progressive Republicans (France) The Progressive Republicans were a French parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies of France during the first half of the French Third Republic. The Progressives were in fact the most conservative members of the Chamber, and most later went on the form the Republican Federation.... |
1,629,483 | 19.30% | 107 | ||
| Bloc des gauches Bloc des gauches The Bloc des gauches , aka Bloc républicain was a coalition of Republican political forces created during the French Third Republic in 1899 to contest the 1902 legislative elections... |
Radicals | 1,445,415 | 17.12% | 121 | |
| Popular Liberal Action Popular Liberal Action The People's Liberal Action was a French political party during the French Third Republic that represented Catholic supporters of the Republic.... |
1,350,581 | 16.00% | 85 | ||
| Nationalists | 1,099,137 | 13.02% | 56 | ||
| Bloc des gauches Bloc des gauches The Bloc des gauches , aka Bloc républicain was a coalition of Republican political forces created during the French Third Republic in 1899 to contest the 1902 legislative elections... |
Republican Left Democratic Republican Alliance The Democratic Republican Alliance was a French political party created in 1901 by followers of Léon Gambetta, such as Raymond Poincaré who would be president of the Council in the 1920s... |
1,087,048 | 12.87% | 79 | |
| Bloc des gauches Bloc des gauches The Bloc des gauches , aka Bloc républicain was a coalition of Republican political forces created during the French Third Republic in 1899 to contest the 1902 legislative elections... |
Radical-Socialists | 854,269 | 10.12% | 77 | |
| Bloc des gauches Bloc des gauches The Bloc des gauches , aka Bloc républicain was a coalition of Republican political forces created during the French Third Republic in 1899 to contest the 1902 legislative elections... |
French Socialist Party French Socialist Party (1902) The French Socialist Party was founded in 1902. It came from the merger of the "possibilist" Federation of the Socialist Workers of France , Jean Allemane's Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party and some independent socialist politicians like Jean Jaurès... |
664,803 | 7.87% | 37 | |
| Socialist Party of France Socialist Party of France (1902) The Socialist Party of France was founded in 1902, during a congress in Commentry, by the merger of the Marxist French Workers' Party led by Jules Guesde and the Blanquist Central Revolutionary Committee of Édouard Vaillant.... |
210,400 | 2.49% | 9 | ||
| Monarchists | 42,406 | 0.50% | 3 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 59,822 | 0.70% | 1 | ||
Sources
- Lingane, les élections de 1902
- L'année Politique 1902, by André Daniel, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1903