1898 French legislative election

none June 2020 French Third Republic parliamentary 1893 French legislative election 1893 8 and 22 May 1898 1902 French legislative election 1902 All 585 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 293 10,779,123 75.2% Jules Méline 1898.jpg Jules Méline Progressives 254 3,262,725 8080C0 Henri Brisson.jpg Henri Brisson Independent Radicals 104 1,293,507 Jean Jaurès, 1904, by Nadar.jpg Jean Jaurès(lost election) Socialists DE0000 57 791,148 Albert de Mun by Isidore Alphonse Chalot.jpg Adrien Albert Marie de Mun Monarchists 22427C 44 887,759 Prime Minister Jules Méline Democratic Union Henri Brisson Radical Left 26 31 seats, 8.37% 143 seats, 20.20% 39 File:France électorale. Elections législatives des 8 et 22 mai 1898 - dressée par E. Giffault - btv1b84418200 (cropped).jpg Results of the election Legislative elections were held in France on 8 and 22 May 1898. The government of Jules Méline, who had been prime minister since April 1896, had relied on the support of conservatives, contrary to the convention of republican concentration, according to which no government should rely on the support of monarchists and Bonapartists in the Chamber of Deputies if it could not rely on a republican majority. The elections were dominated by the Dreyfus affair, and saw several notable supporters of Dreyfus (Joseph Reinach, Jean Jaurès, Jules Guesde) lose their seats. Around twenty eight professed antisemites were also elected (six of whom were elected after campaigning under the "anti-juif" or "anti-Jew" label),Joly Laurent 2007 Antisémites et antisémitisme à la Chambre des députés sous la IIIe République Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 54 3 63–90Wilson Stephen https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780197100523.003.0008 Ideology and Experience: Anti-Semitism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair October 1984 Liverpool Scholarship Online online Liverpool en VIII Antisemitism in French Politics: The Antisemitic Group in the Chamber of Deputies 1898-1906 10.3828/liverpool/9780197100523.003.0008 16 January 2024 https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780197100523.003.0008 subscription including Édouard Drumont. Whilst the incumbent governing alliance led by Méline won more seats than any other faction, this victory was short-lived. Due to a combination of factors, such as the ongoing Dreyfus Affair, deputies within Méline's faction relying on support from Radical voters to secure their seats, and the overall strengthening of extremists across the political landscape, Méline could not rely on his own faction to support him. When the Chamber of Deputies reconvened on 22 June 1898, these fears were realized, after sufficient monarchist and progressist members of Méline's faction broke ranks and voted to support the Radicals instead.Passmore Kevin https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658206.003.0004 The Right in France from the Third Republic to Vichy 4 The Ralliement (1890–1898) November 2012 Oxford Academic online Oxford 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658206.003.0004 16 January 2024 https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658206.003.0004 subscription Ultimately, the elections saw the defeat of Méline and his supporters: the Radical victory in the Chamber of Deputies allowed Henri Brisson to form a republican government.Gildea Robert Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799–1914 Penguin UK London 275 en Results Progressives 3262725 254 #8080C0 Independent Radicals 1293507 104 Monarchists 887759 44 #1F497D Socialists 791148 57 #DE0000 Radical-Socialists 629572 74 Nationalists 250101 6 black Ralliés 32 Miscellaneous right 10 Revisionists 4 pink 8106123 10779123 Rois et Présidents Elections Législatives 1898 http://www.roi-president.com/elections_legislatives/legislatives_1898.php Rois et Présidents bot: unknown https://web.archive.org/web/20080724221959/http://www.roi-president.com/elections_legislatives/legislatives_1898.php 24 July 2008 4 Oct 2025 File:French_Chamber_of_Deputies_1898.svg References External links Map of Deputies elected in 1898 according to their group in the House, including overseas Geoelections Category:Legislative elections in France Legislative France