Country: | French Third Republic |
Type: | legislative |
Previous Election: | 1919 French legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1919 |
Next Election: | 1928 French legislative election |
Next Year: | 1928 |
Election Date: | 11 May 1924 (first round) |
Seats For Election: | All 574 seats in the Chamber of Deputies |
Registered: | 11,070,360 |
Turnout: | 83.03% |
Image1: | Auguste Isaac.jpg |
Leader1: | Auguste Isaac |
Party1: | Democratic and Republican Union |
Seats1: | 204 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Popular Vote1: | 3,190,831 |
Percentage1: | 35.35% |
Leader2: | Léon Blum |
Party2: | French Section of the Workers' International |
Seats2: | 104 |
Seat Change2: | 37 |
Popular Vote2: | 1,814,000 |
Percentage2: | 20.10% |
Image3: | Édouard Herriot - Président du Conseil - 1924.jpeg |
Leader3: | Édouard Herriot |
Party3: | PRS–PRS |
Seats3: | 162 |
Seat Change3: | 39 |
Popular Vote3: | 1,612,581 |
Percentage3: | 17.86% |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Raymond Poincaré |
Before Party: | Democratic Alliance |
After Election: | Édouard Herriot |
After Party: | Radical-Socialist Party |
Legislative elections were held in France on 11 May and 25 May 1924.[1] They resulted in a victory for the left-wing Cartel des Gauches, an alliance of Radicals and Socialists, which governed until July 1926 under the premierships of Édouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand.