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Legislative elections were held in France on 26 April and 3 May 1936, the last elections beforeWorld War II. The number of candidates set a record, with 4,807 running for election to theChamber of Deputies. In theSeine Department alone, there were 1,402 candidates.[1] The legislative election was the last before women were grantedthe right to vote in April 1944.[2]
ThePopular Front, a broadcentre-leftelectoral alliance composed of the social-democraticFrench Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the social-liberalRadical-Socialists, theFrench Section of the Communist International (SFIC), and associated smaller left-wing groups, won power from the conservative coalition that had governed since the6 February 1934 crisis.Léon Blum became president of the council.
The SFIC, predecessor of theCommunist Party, more than tripled its seats total from 11 SFIC and 9 Union Ouvrière deputies in 1932 to 72 in 1936. The party made gains in industrialized suburbs and working-class areas of major cities. They also progressed in rural central and southwestern France (e.g.,Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne)The Radicals lost votes to the SFIO and SFIC, but also to the right.The SFIO declined slightly. In working-class suburbs, the party declined, but it gained votes inBrittany, to the dismay of the right.Only 174 seats were elected in the first round, 424 were decided in a run-off. The right fared better in the second round.
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| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| Popular Front | French Section of the Workers' International | 1,955,306 | 19.86 | 149 | ||
| French Communist Party | 1,502,404 | 15.26 | 72 | |||
| Radical Socialist Party | 1,422,611 | 14.45 | 111 | |||
| Socialist Republican Union | 748,600 | 7.60 | 29 | |||
| Miscellaneous left | 28 | |||||
| Total | 5,628,921 | 57.16 | 389 | |||
| National Front | Republican Left | 2,536,294 | 25.76 | 95 | ||
| Republican Union | 1,666,004 | 16.92 | 128 | |||
| Total | 4,202,298 | 42.67 | 223 | |||
| Others | 16,047 | 0.16 | 0 | |||
| Total | 9,847,266 | 100.00 | 612 | |||
| Valid votes | 9,847,266 | 99.09 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 90,692 | 0.91 | ||||
| Total votes | 9,937,958 | 100.00 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 11,768,491 | 84.45 | ||||
| Source: Mackie & Rose,[3] Nohlen & Stöver,[4]Quid | ||||||
