1932 Romanian general election

1932 Romanian general election
All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies; All 113 seats in the Senate
Prime Minister before election; Alexandru Vaida-Voevod; PNȚ	Subsequent Prime Minister ; Alexandru Vaida-Voevod; PNȚ

General elections were held in Romania in July 1932.^[1] The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 17 July, whilst the Senate was elected in three stages on 20, 24 and 26 July.^[1] The result was a victory for the governing National Peasants' Party-German Party alliance, which won 274 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 104 of the 113 seats in the Senate elected through universal male vote.^[2] Of the 274 Chamber seats, 265 were taken by the National Peasant's Party and nine by the German Party.^[2]

Results

Chamber of Deputies


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	National Peasants' Party–German Party	1,203,700	41.52	274	+244
	National Liberal Party	407,023	14.04	28	–
	National Liberal Party–Brătianu	195,048	6.73	14	+2
	Peasants' Party–Lupu	170,860	5.89	12	+5
	National-Christian Defense League	159,071	5.49	11	+3
	Magyar Party	141,894	4.89	14	+4
	National Agrarian Party	108,857	3.75	8	New
	Social Democratic Party	101,068	3.49	7	+1
	Codreanu Group	70,674	2.44	5	New
	National Union^[a]	68,116	2.35	5	–
	Jewish Party	67,582	2.33	5	+1
	People's Party	64,525	2.23	4	–6
	Traders Council	45,851	1.58	0	New
	Democratic Peasants' Party–Stere	41,454	1.43	0	–5
	Conservative Party	18,643	0.64	0	New
	Agrarian League	14,831	0.51	0	New
	Peasant Workers' Bloc	9,441	0.33	0	–5
	Civic Union	1,503	0.05	0	New
	Other parties	9,178	0.32	0	–
Total		2,899,319	100.00	387	0

Valid votes		2,899,319	97.06
Invalid/blank votes		87,810	2.94
Total votes		2,987,129	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		4,220,731	70.77
Source: Sternberger et al.,^[4] Nohlen & Stöver

Senate


Party		Seats	+/–
	National Peasants' Party–German Party	104	+103
	Magyar Party	3	–1
	National-Christian Defense League	2	+2
	Democratic Peasant Party	2	New
	National Liberal Party	1	–
	Peasants' Party–Lupu	1	+1
Total		113	0

Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Notes

^ Of the five seats won by the National Union (an alliance of the National Party–Iorga, the Democratic Nationalist Party and the Agrarian Union Party), the National Party–Iorga took three and the Agrarian Union Party two.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1591 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ ^a ^b Nohlen & Stöver, p1610-1611
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1610
^ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064