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'French Presidential elections under the Third Republic' involved the election of the President of France by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The President was thus elected by indirect universal suffrage.
Since the Third Republic was a parliamentary system, the President had much fewer powers than under the current Fifth Republic, where the president is elected under universal suffrage. Besides, since the May 16, 1877 crisis, the President was prevented, by custom, to use his right of dissolution of parliament. Thus, no president used it after Mac-Mahon dissolving of 1877.
== 1873 Presidential election ==
24 May:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Patrice de Mac-Mahon'	Monarchist	99.74% (391)
Jules Grevy	Left	0.16% (1)

== 1879 Presidential election ==
30 January:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Jules Grevy'	Left	78.96% (563)
Antoine Chanzy	Military	13.88% (99)
Leon Gambetta	Left	0.70% (5)
Paul de Ladmirault	Military	0.14% (1)
Henri, comte de Chambord	Monarchist	0.14% (1)
Gaston Galliffet	Military	0.14% (1)

== 1885 Presidential election ==
28 December:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Jules Grevy'	Left	54.06% (457)
Henri Brisson	Centre	8.01% (68)
Charles de Freycinet	Left	1.65% (14)

== 1887 Presidential election ==
3 December:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Marie Francois Sadi Carnot'	Left	72.56%
Felix Gustave Saussier	Military	24.85%

== 1894 Presidential election ==
27 June:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Jean Casimir-Perier'	Left	53% (451)
Henri Brisson	Centre	22.91% (195)
Charles Dupuy	Right	11.40% (97)
General Fevrier	Military	6.23% (53)
Francois Arago	Republican	3.17% (27)

== 1895 Presidential election ==
17 January:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''	''Round 2''
'Felix Faure'	Republican	30.77% (244)	62.92% (430)
Henri Brisson	Centre	42.62% (338)	41.70% (361)
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau	Liberal	23.20% (184)	-

== 1899 Presidential election ==
18 February:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Emile Loubet'	Left	58.62% (483)
Jules Meline	Left	33.86% (274)
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac	Centre	2.79% (23)

== 1906 Presidential election ==
18 February:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Armand Fallieres'	Left	52.89%
Paul Doumer	Radical	43.70%

== 1913 Presidential election ==
17 January:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Raymond Poincare'	Right	60.38%
Jules Pams	Left	37%

== 1920 Presidential election ==
18 February:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Paul Deschanel'	Right	82.66%
Charles Jonnart	Left	7.21%
Georges Clémenceau	Left	5.97%

== 1920 Presidential election ==
24 September:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Alexandre Millerand'	Right	77.91%
Gustave Delory	SFIO	7.74%

== 1924 Presidential election ==
13 June:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Gaston Doumergue'	Radical-Socialist	59.88%
Paul Painlevé	Left	35.93%
Zéphyrin Camelinat	French Communist Party	2.44%

== 1931 Presidential election ==
13 June:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''	''Round 2''
'Paul Doumer'	Radical-Socialist	49.06%	56.44%
Pierre Marraud	Left	-	37.40%
Paul Painlevé	Left	-	1.46%
Aristide Briand	SFIO	44.51%	1.34%
Marcel Cachin	French Communist Party	1.11%	1.23%
Hennessy	Right	1.66%	-

== 1932 Presidential election ==
10 May:

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Albert Lebrun'	Centre	76.63%
Paul Faure	SFIO	13.80%
Paul Painlevé	Left	1.45%
Marcel Cachin	French Communist Party	0.97%

== 1939 Presidential election ==

'Candidates'	Political party/allegiance	''Round 1''
'Albert Lebrun'	Centre	55.60%
Albert Bedouce	Left	16.59%
Marcel Cachin	French Communist Party	8.13%
Edouard Herriot	Radical-Socialist	5.82%
Justin Godart	Right	5.49%
Fernand Bouisson	SFIO	1.76%
François Piétri	Right	1.10%