French legislative election, 1820

French legislative election, 1820
Bourbon Restoration
4 November and 13 November 1820

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Élie-Louis Decazes Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis Benjamin Constant
Party Doctrinaires Ultra-royalist Liberal Left (France)
Seats won 194 160 80

The 1820 general election organized the second legislature of the Second Restoration. The election was held on 4 and 13 November.

Process

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
  Doctrinaires 194
  Ultra-royalists 160
  Liberal Left 80

Sources