1902 French legislative election

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All 589 seats theChamber of Deputies 295 seats needed for a majority
Leader Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau Jules Méline Jacques Piou(lost election) Alliance Left Bloc Parties Democratic Republican Alliance Radical-Socialists Independent Radicals Socialists Progressives Republicans Conservatives Parties Liberal Action Nationalists Reactionaries Seats won 338 127 124
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 theBloc des gauches alliance between Socialists, Radicals and theDemocratic Republican Alliance, over the anti-Dreyfusard right wing of the Republicans, theprogressistes. TheBloc des gauches had been brought together to support the "Republican Defense Cabinet" (gouvernement de défense républicaine) formed byPierre Waldeck-Rousseau following the assault on the newly elected president,Émile Loubet, on theLongchamp Racecourse on 4 June 1899, during theDreyfus affair.

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

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Progressive Republicans	2,501,429	29.73	127
	Democratic Republican Alliance			62
	Independent Radicals	1,413,931	16.81	129
	Nationalists [fr]	1,194,900	14.20	89
	Reactionaries	1,188,180	14.12
	Socialists	531,087	6.31	43
	Revolutionary Socialists	344,445	4.09
	Radical-Socialists	853,140	10.14	104
	Popular Liberal Action	385,615	4.58	35
Total		8,412,727	100.00	589
Registered voters/turnout		11,058,702	–
Source: France-Politique,[2]Rois et Presidents

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

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

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