The number of candidates set a record, with 4,807 running for election to the Chamber of Deputies.

[1] The Popular Front, composed of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the Radical-Socialists, the French Section of the Communist International (SFIC), and miscellaneous leftists, won power from the broad Republican coalitions that had governed since the 6 February 1934 crisis.

The party made gains in industrialized suburbs and working-class areas of major cities.

They also progressed in rural central and southwestern France (e.g., Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne) The Radicals lost votes to the SFIO and SFIC, but also to the right.

In working-class suburbs, the party declined, but it gained votes in Brittany, to the dismay of the right.