1902 French legislative election

27 April and 11 May 1902
All 589 seats the Chamber of Deputies 295 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jules Méline Émile Combes Jacques Piou Party Republicans Radicals Conservatives Seats won 189 233 89 Popular vote 2,501,429 2,267,071 2,383,080 Percentage 29.73% 26.93% 28.32%
Prime Minister before election Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau ARD Elected Prime Minister Émile Combes Radicals

Legislative elections were held in France on 27 April and 11 May 1902. The result was a victory for the Bloc des gauches alliance between Socialists, Radicals, and the left wing of the Republicans, over the anti-Dreyfusard right wing of the Republicans, the progressistes. The Bloc des gauches had been brought together to support the "Republican Defense Cabinet" (gouvernement de défense républicaine) formed by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau following the assault on the newly elected president, Émile Loubet, on the Longchamp Racecourse on 4 June 1899, during the Dreyfus affair.

However, Waldeck-Rousseau's own supporters (the ARD) took few seats in the election compared to the Radicals and Socialists. After the election, President Loubet invited the Radical Émile Combes to form a government, which lasted until January 1905, when the Socialists withdrew from the Bloc des gauches.^[1]

Results

References

• L'année Politique 1902, by André Daniel, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1903

External links

• Map of Deputies elected in 1902 according to their group in the House, including overseas (in french)