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Electoral Reform in France and the Elections of 19191

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Graham H. Stuart
Graham H. Stuart
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
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Extract

Unusual interest attaches to all of the continental elections of recent months—the first to be held after the long postponements caused by the war; but the elections in France derive special importance from the new electoral law of July 12, 1919, under which they were held.

After a nine-year contest, the elements which have demanded scrutin de liste, or election on a general departmental ticket, instead of scrutin d'arrondissement, or election by small districts, have come off victorious. Each of the two systems prevailed at various times during the Restoration, the Second Republic, and the Second Empire.

Type
Foreign Governments and Politics
Information
American Political Science Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 1920 , pp. 117 - 123
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1920

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References

1 The text of the electoral law of July 12, 1919, is printed in the Revue Politique et Parlementaire, August 10, 1919; the Guide de l'Electeur, a circular issued by the minister of interior in explanation of the law, in Le Temps, November 6, 1919.