The 1914 general elections were held on 26 April and 10 May 1914, three months before the outbreak of World War I. The Radical Party (France), Radical Party, a Radical politics, radical and increasingly Centre-right politics, centre-right party, won a Landslide (politics), landslide victory, though, with the outbreak of the First World War, many in the Chamber of Deputies (France), Chamber, ranging from Catholicism in France, Catholics to Socialism in France, socialists, united to form the ''Union sacrée''. Excluding one seat in Martinique that was not proclaimed, of the 602 seats up for election 192 returned new members.Le Matin, 12 May 1914
/ref> Alexandre Ribot, a member of the Democratic Republican Alliance, Republican Democratic Party, negotiated a government on 9 June 1914, but its perceived overly-centrist leanings lead much of the Left-wing politics, left-wing of the Radical Party (France), Radical Party to rebel against it, bringing it down on the day it was presented to the chamber. Ribot was quickly succeeded by René Viviani of the Republican-Socialist Party, who formed a Centre-left politics, centre-left government on 13 June, only four days later.

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*https://www.france-politique.fr/elections-legislatives-1914.htm

External links

Map of Deputies elected in 1914 according to their group in the House, including overseas (in French)
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