1927 Romanian general election![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/50px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png)
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← 1926 | 7–14 July 1927 | 1928 → |
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All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies All 110 seats in the Senate |
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Turnout | 77.0% ( 2.0pp) |
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| First party | Second party | Third party | | | | | Leader | Ion I. C. Brătianu | Iuliu Maniu | György Bethlen (pictured) and Rudolf Brandsch | Party | PNL | PNȚ | BMG | Leader since | 11 January 1909 | 10 October 1926 (party foundation) | 1 April 1926 (Bethlen) 6 September 1919 (Brandsch) | Last election | 0 S 16 D, 7.5% | – | – | Seats won | 92 S / 318 D | 17 S / 54 D | 1 S / 15 D | Seat change | 92 S / 302 D | New | New | Popular vote | 1,704,435 D | 610,149 D | 173,517 D | Percentage | 62.7% | 22.5% | 6.4% | Swing | 55.2pp | New | New | |
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General elections were held in Romania in July 1927. The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 7 July, whilst the Senate was elected in three stages on 10, 12 and 14 July. The result was a victory for the governing National Liberal Party (PNL), which won 318 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 92 of the 110 seats in the Senate elected through universal male vote.[1]
Results
Chamber of Deputies
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| National Liberal Party | 1,704,435 | 62.72 | 318 | +302 |
| National Peasants' Party | 610,149 | 22.45 | 54 | New |
| Hungarian German Bloc | 173,517 | 6.39 | 15 | New |
| People's Party | 53,371 | 1.96 | 0 | –292 |
| National-Christian Defense League | 52,481 | 1.93 | 0 | –10 |
| Romanian Social Democratic Party | 50,059 | 1.84 | 0 | 0 |
| Peasant Workers' Bloc | 31,505 | 1.16 | 0 | 0 |
| National Party | 28,157 | 1.04 | 0 | New |
| Legion of the Archangel Michael | 10,761 | 0.40 | 0 | New |
| Traders Council | 154 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
| Other parties | 2,884 | 0.11 | 0 | – |
Total | 2,717,473 | 100.00 | 387 | 0 |
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Valid votes | 2,717,473 | 98.36 | |
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Invalid/blank votes | 45,306 | 1.64 | |
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Total votes | 2,762,779 | 100.00 | |
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Registered voters/turnout | 3,586,086 | 77.04 | |
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Source: Sternberger et al.,[2] Nohlen & Stöver |
Senate
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp1609-1611 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa, Zweiter Halbband, pp1062–1064