Election Name: | 1931 Romanian general election |
Country: | Kingdom of Romania |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Turnout: | 72.48% |
Previous Election: | 1928 Romanian general election |
Previous Year: | 1928 |
Next Election: | 1932 Romanian general election |
Next Year: | 1932 |
Seats For Election: | All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies All 113 seats in the Senate |
Election Date: | 1–8 June 1931 |
Image1: | Ion Gheorghe Duca - Foto02.jpg |
Leader1: | Ion Duca |
Leader Since1: | 28 December 1930 (PNL-Duca) |
Last Election1: | – |
Party1 Name: | no |
Party1: | National Union |
Color1: | FFE101 |
Popular Vote1: | 1,389,901 D |
Percentage1: | 48.86% |
Seats1: | 108 S / 289 D |
Seat Change1: | New |
Swing1: | New |
Leader2: | Iuliu Maniu |
Leader Since2: | 10 October 1926 (party foundation) |
Last Election2: | 105 S / 348 D |
Party2: | National Peasants' Party |
Popular Vote2: | 438,747 D |
Percentage2: | 15.42% |
Swing2: | 63.8pp |
Image3: | Gh. I. Bratianu.jpg |
Leader3: | Gheorghe Brătianu |
Leader Since3: | 15 June 1930 (party foundation) |
Last Election3: | – |
Party3: | National Liberal Party–Brătianu |
Seats3: | 0 S / 12 D |
Seat Change3: | New |
Popular Vote3: | 173,586 D |
Percentage3: | 6.10% |
Swing3: | New |
Image4: | Le_général_Averescu%2C_commandant_du_1er_corps_d'armée_roumain.jpg |
Leader4: | Alexandru Averescu |
Leader Since4: | 3 April 1918 (party foundation) |
Last Election4: | 0 S / 5 D |
Party4: | People's Party (interwar Romania) |
Seats4: | 0 S / 10 D |
Seat Change4: | 0 S / 5 D |
Popular Vote4: | 141,141 D |
Percentage4: | 4.96% |
Swing4: | 2.5pp |
Image5: | Gy%C3%B6rgy_Bethlen.jpg |
Leader5: | György Bethlen |
Leader Since5: | 1 April 1926 |
Last Election5: | 0 S / 16 D |
Party5: | Magyar Party (Romania) |
Seats5: | 0 S / 10 D |
Seat Change5: | 0 S / 6 D |
Popular Vote5: | 139,003 D |
Percentage5: | 4.89% |
Swing5: | 1.3pp |
Image6: | A.c_cuza.jpg |
Leader6: | A. C. Cuza |
Leader Since6: | March 1923 (party foundation) |
Last Election6: | 0 S / 0 D |
Party6: | National-Christian Defense League |
Seats6: | 0 S / 8 D |
Seat Change6: | 0 S / 8 D |
Popular Vote6: | 113,863 D |
Percentage6: | 4.00% |
Swing6: | 2.8pp |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent Prime Minister |
Before Election: | Nicolae Iorga |
Before Party: | PND |
After Election: | Nicolae Iorga |
After Party: | PND |
General elections were held in Romania in June 1931.[1] The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 1 June, whilst the Senate was elected in three stages on 4, 6 and 8 June.[1] The result was a victory for the governing National Union, an alliance of the National Party, the National Liberal Party, the German Party, the Agrarian Union Party, the Vlad Ţepeş League, the Agrarian League and several other parties.[2] The Union won 289 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 108 of the 113 seats in the Senate elected through universal vote.[3] The five seats won by the Communist-dominated Peasant Workers' Bloc were ultimately invalidated by the new Parliament.