French legislative election, 1849

13 and 14 May 1849

All 705 seats of the National Assembly
353 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Odilon Barrot	Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin	Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
Party	Party of Order	Democratic Socialist	Moderate Republican
Leader's seat	Aisne	Seine	Lot
Seats won	450	180	75
Popular vote	3,310,000	1,955,000	834,000
Percentage	50.2%	29.6%	12.6%

Composition of the National Assembly

Prime Minister before election

Odilon Barrot
Party of Order

Elected Prime Minister

Party of Order

Parliamentary elections were held in France on 13 and 14 May 1849.^[1] Voters elected the first National Assembly of the Second Republic. The conservative Parti de l'Ordre won an overall majority of 450 seats.The Parti de l'Ordre was a bourgeois, traditionalist, and conservative party opposed to the Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and the subsequent 1851 coup.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Monarchists	3,310,000	50.2%	450
	Democratic Socialists	1,955,000	29.6%	180
	Constitutionalist Republicans	834,000	12.6%	75
	Independents and others	495,000	7.5%	0
	Invalid/blank votes	171,000	–	–
Total		6,765,000	100%	705
Registered voters/turnout		9,936,000	68.1%	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Kings and Presidents

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p673 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

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