Romanian general election, 1931

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 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.^[3]

Results

Party	Chamber				Senate
	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
National Union	1,389,901	48.9	289	–			108	–
National Peasants' Party	438,747	15.4	30	–296			1	–104
National Liberal Party-Brătianu	173,586	6.1	12	New			0	New
People's Party	141,141	5.0	10	–			0	0
Magyar Party	139,003	4.9	10	–6			4	+1
National-Christian Defense League	113,863	4.0	8	+8			0	0
Peasants' Party–Lupu	100,682	3.5	7	+2			0	0
Social Democratic Party	94,957	3.3	6	–3			0	0
League against Usury–PTD-Stere^[a]	80,570	2.8	6	New			0	New
Peasant Workers' Bloc	73,716	2.6	5	+5			0	0
Jewish Party	64,193	2.3	4	+4			0	–2
Legion of the Archangel Michael	30,783	1.1	0	New			0	New
Other parties	3,412	0.1	0	–			0	–
Invalid/blank votes	82,568	–	–	–		–	–	–
Total	2,927,122	100	387	0			113	+3
Registered voters/turnout	4,038,464	72.5	–	–			–	–
Source: Sternberger et al.,[4] Nohlen & Stöver

^a Of the six seats won by the League against Usury and Democratic Peasants' Party–Stere, five were taken by the PTD-S and one by the League against Usury.^[5]

References

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (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. Nohlen & Stöver, p1610