French legislative election, 1902

French legislative election, 1902

← 1898 27 April and 11 May 1902 1906 →
All 585 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Émile Combes Jules Méline Jacques Piou Party PRRRS FR AL Alliance Lefts Bloc Leader's seat Charente-Maritime Vosges Lozère Seats won 295 127 89 Seat change new party new party new party Popular vote 4,051,535 1,629,483 1,350,581 Percentage 50.09% 21.56% 15.11%
Composition of the Chamber of Deputies
Prime Minister before election Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau Democratic Republican Alliance Elected Prime Minister Émile Combes Radical-Socialist Party

Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau
Democratic Republican Alliance

Émile Combes
Radical-Socialist Party

Legislative elections were held in France on 27 April and 11 May 1902.

These elections were a victory for the Bloc des gauches alliance between Socialists, Radicals, and the left wing of the Republicans, over the anti-Dreyfusard right wing of the Republicans, the progressistes. The Bloc des gauches had been brought together to support the "Republican Defense Cabinet" (gouvernement de défense républicaine) formed by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau following the assault on the newly elected President, Émile Loubet, on the Longchamp Racecourse on 4 June 1899, during the Dreyfus affair.

However, Waldeck-Rousseau's own supporters (the ARD) took few seats in the election compared to the Radicals and Socialists. After the election, President Loubet invited the Radical Émile Combes to form a government, which lasted until January 1905, when the Socialists withdrew from the Bloc des gauches.