1931 Romanian general election

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][3] 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.

1931 Romanian general election
1–8 June 1931
All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
All 113 seats in the Senate
Turnout72.5% (4.9%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ion Duca Iuliu Maniu Gheorghe Brătianu
Party National Union
(Political Alliance)		 PNȚ PNL–Brătianu
Leader since 28 December 1930
(PNL-Duca)		 10 October 1926
(party foundation)		 15 June 1930
(party foundation)
Last election New 105 S
348 D, 79.2%		 New
Seats won 108 S / 289 D 1 S / 30 D 0 S / 12 D
Seat change New 104 S / 296 D New
Popular vote 1,389,901 D 438,747 D 173,586 D
Percentage 48.9% 15.4% 6.1%
Swing New 63.8% New
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Alexandru Averescu György Bethlen A. C. Cuza
Party PP PM LANC
Leader since 3 April 1918
(party foundation)		 1 April 1926 March 1923
(party foundation)
Last election 0 S
5 D, 2.5%		 0 S
16 D, 6.2%		 0 S
0 D, 1.2%
Seats won 0 S / 10 D 0 S / 10 D 0 S / 8 D
Seat change 0 S / 5 D 0 S / 6 D 0 S / 8 D
Popular vote 141,141 D 139,003 D 113,863 D
Percentage 5.0% 4.9% 4.0%
Swing 2.5% 1.3% 2.8%
Prime Minister before election

Nicolae Iorga
PND

 Elected Prime Minister

Nicolae Iorga
PND

Results
Party Chamber Senate
Votes % Seats +/– Votes % Seats +/–
National Union[a]1,389,90148.9289–108–
National Peasants' Party438,74715.430–2961–104
National Liberal Party-Brătianu173,5866.112New0New
People's Party141,1415.010–00
Magyar Party139,0034.910–64+1
National-Christian Defense League113,8634.08+800
Peasants' Party–Lupu100,6823.57+200
Social Democratic Party94,9573.36–300
League against Usury–PȚD-Stere[b]80,5702.86New0New
Peasant Workers' Bloc73,7162.65+500
Jewish Party64,1932.34+40–2
Legion of the Archangel Michael30,7831.10New0New
Other parties3,4120.10–0–
Invalid/blank votes82,568––––––
Total2,927,1221003870113+3
Registered voters/turnout4,038,46472.5––––
Source: Sternberger et al.,[4] Nohlen & Stöver
a Of the National Union deputy seats, eighty were taken by the National Liberal Party-Duca, ten by the German Party and eight by the Agrarian League.[5] Three mandates (Mircea Iorga, Dimitrie Pompeiu and Petre Topa) were taken by PND.
b Of the six seats won by the League against Usury and Democratic Peasants' Party–Stere, five were taken by the PȚD-S and one by the League against Usury.[6]

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1591 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1601
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1610-1611
  4. Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064
  5. Adevărul no. 14552 (1 June 1931), p. 5
  6. Nohlen & Stöver, p1610
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