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1922 Romanian general election

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Field	Value
country	Kingdom of Romania
type	legislative
ongoing	no
previous_election	1920 Romanian general election
previous_year	1920
next_election	1926 Romanian general election
next_year	1926
seats_for_election	All 369 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
All 148 seats in the Senate
election_date	1–3 March 1922
image1	Ion I C Bratianu - Foto01.jpg
leader1	Ion I. C. Brătianu
leaders_seat1	Gorj County
party1	National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875)
seats1	227 C / 111 S
seat_change1	211 C / 110 S
image2	CStere.jpeg
leader2	Constantin Stere
leaders_seat2	Soroca County
party2	Peasants' Party (Romania)
seats2	40 C / 11 S
seat_change2	15 C / 1 S
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Subsequent Prime Minister
before_election	Ion I. C. Brătianu
after_election	Ion I. C. Brătianu
before_party	National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875)
after_party	National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875)

All 148 seats in the Senate General elections were held in Romania between 1 and 3 March 1922. In the first stage between 1 and 3 March, seats in the Senate were elected. In the second stage between 5 and 7 March the Chamber of Deputies was elected, and in the third and final stage from 9 to 11 March, additional Senate seats were elected. The result was a victory for the governing National Liberal Party, which won 227 of the 369 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 111 of the 148 seats in the Senate. Both houses were combined to form a Constitutional Assembly, which approved the 1923 constitution.

Campaign

In 34 of the 121 constituencies in Transylvania, candidates ran unopposed and were proclaimed elected without an actual poll, mostly because the National Liberal government refused to register opposition candidates. Overall, the campaign was dominated by the government through what some opposition representative deemed "terror". The National Liberals freely used the administration and the Army in order to promote its candidates and intimidate the opposition, rejected the registration of many opposition candidates while pressuring others into withdrawing, destroyed opposition publications, forbade or brutally dissolved opposition rallies, arrested candidates and worked to split the vote among the competing opposition parties.

Government pressure continued during election day. According to Constantin Stere, army officers in Bessarabia campaigned for the government inside the polling stations and entered voting booths to ensure a vote for the government. According to Nicolae Iorga, government agents beat up opposition supporters in Fălticeni, Dorohoi and Odobești, prevented whole villages from voting in the Putna County, while in Argeș County the soldiers voted instead of the public. In several places across the country, opposition candidates were prevented from voting. Opposition leaders condemned the abuses of the government, with Romanian National Party leader Iuliu Maniu declaring the elections "a European scandal" and initially refusing to take part in the works of the newly elected Parliament.

Results

Chamber of Deputies

Senate

Notes

References

(2010). "Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook".
Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1599
Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1592
(2000). "Electoratul din Transilvania în primii ani după marea unire". Apulum.
(1997). "Puterea și opoziția în alegerile parlamentare din martie 1922". Apulum.
Dolf Sternberger, Berngard Vogel & Dieter Nohlen. (1969). "Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa - Zweiter Halbband".

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