1893 French legislative election explained

Country:French Third Republic
Type:parliamentary
Previous Election:1889 French legislative election
Previous Year:1889
Election Date:20 August and 3 September 1893
Next Election:1898 French legislative election
Next Year:1898
Seats For Election:All 566 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Majority Seats:284
Image1:Jean Casimir-Perier(1847-1907) (cropped).jpg
Leader1:Jean Casimir-Perier
Party1:Moderate Republicans
Seats1:279
Popular Vote1:3,187,670
Percentage1:44.60%
Leader2:Georges Clemenceau
Party2:Radicals
Seats2:143
Popular Vote2:1,443,915
Percentage2:20.20%
Image3:Albert de Mun by Isidore Alphonse Chalot.jpg
Leader3:Albert de Mun
Party3:Conservatives
Seats3:76
Popular Vote3:1,178,007
Percentage3:16.48%
Color3:1F497D
Prime Minister
Before Election:Charles Dupuy
Before Party:Democratic Union
After Election:Jean Casimir-Perier
After Party:Democratic Union

Legislative elections were held in France on 20 August and 3 September 1893. The Republicans were victorious and gained an increased majority, and President Sadi Carnot invited Jean Casimir-Perier to form a government. However, there was increasing tension between the Radicals and the Moderates in the ruling coalition, which had manifested itself in the passage of a protectionist tariff law with right-wing support in January 1892.

After the elections, following the bombing of the Chamber of Deputies by the anarchist Auguste Vaillant on 9 December 1893, Casimir-Perier rushed through the lois scélérates with the support of the Right.

Casimir-Perier was elected to the presidency on 24 June 1894, following the assassination of President Carnot by the Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio. In January 1895, however, he resigned, and was replaced by Félix Faure, again with the support of the Right.

Casimir-Perier's government was followed by a series of moderate governments with right-wing support under Charles Dupuy, Alexandre Ribot and Jules Méline – with the short-lived exception of the government of Radical Léon Bourgeois (November 1895 – April 1896).[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Gildea, R., Children of the Revolution, London, 2008, pp. 270–272