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]
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All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies All 113 seats in the Senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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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 |
Party | Seats | +/– | |
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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 |