French legislative election, 1857

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The 1857 general election organized the second legislature of the French Second Empire. The election was held on June 21 and July 5.

According to the constitution of the empire, partisans of the regime ran as "official candidates" of the regime in often gerrymandered circonscriptions.

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Party Seats
  Bonapartists "Official candidates" 276
  Republicans 7

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