French legislative election, 1816
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The 1816 French general election organized the first legislature of the Second Restoration. The election was held on September 25 and October 4.
Only citizens paying taxes were eligible to vote.
All electors elected three-fifths of all deputies in the first round. In the second round, the most heavily taxed voted again to elect the remaining two-fifths of deputies.
[edit] Results
Party | Seats | |
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Moderate royalists | 136 | |
"Ultras" | 92 | |
Republicans and Bonapartists | 20 | |
Liberal left | 10 |
[edit] Sources
- (French) Roi et President
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