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 25 September and 4 October.
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.
Results
Party | Seats | |
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Doctrinaires | 136 | |
Ultra-royalists | 92 | |
Miscellaneous left (Republicans and Bonapartists | 20 | |
Liberal Left | 10 |
Sources
- (French) Roi et President
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