Country: | Kingdom of Romania |
Type: | parliamentary |
Turnout: | 77.0% (2.0pp) |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1926 Romanian general election |
Previous Year: | 1926 |
Next Election: | 1928 Romanian general election |
Next Year: | 1928 |
Seats For Election: | All 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies All 110 seats in the Senate |
Election Date: | 7–14 July 1927 |
Leader1: | Ion I. C. Brătianu |
Leader Since1: | 11 January 1909 |
Last Election1: | 0 S 16 D, 7.5% |
Party1: | National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875) |
Color1: | FFE101 |
Popular Vote1: | 1,704,435 D |
Percentage1: | 62.7% |
Seats1: | 92 S / 318 D |
Seat Change1: | 92 S / 302 D |
Swing1: | 55.2pp |
Leader2: | Iuliu Maniu |
Leader Since2: | 10 October 1926 (party foundation) |
Last Election2: | – |
Party2: | National Peasants' Party |
Popular Vote2: | 610,149 D |
Percentage2: | 22.5% |
Seat Change2: | New |
Swing2: | New |
Colour3: | 006400 |
Leader3: | György Bethlen (pictured) and Rudolf Brandsch |
Leader Since3: | 1 April 1926 (Bethlen) 6 September 1919 (Brandsch) |
Last Election3: | – |
Party3: | BMG |
Seats3: | 1 S / 15 D |
Seat Change3: | New |
Popular Vote3: | 173,517 D |
Percentage3: | 6.4% |
Swing3: | New |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent Prime Minister |
Before Election: | Ion I. C. Brătianu |
Before Party: | National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875) |
After Election: | Ion I. C. Brătianu |
After Party: | National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875) |
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]