French legislative election, 1849

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French legislative election, 1849
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All 705 seats of the National Assembly
353 seats were needed for a majority

 First partySecond partyThird party
  Alexis de tocqueville cropped.jpg LedruRollin by Mongez.jpg Cavaignac.jpg
Leader Alexis de Tocqueville Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
Party Conservative Montagnard Republican
Leader's seat Manche Seine Lot
Seats won45018075
Popular vote3,310,0001,955,000834,000
Percentage50.2%29.6%12.6%
French National Assembly 1849.svg
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.

France Republic with mainland in Europe and numerous oversea territories

France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.3 million. France, a sovereign state, is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.

French Second Republic government of France between 1848-1852

The French Second Republic was a short-lived republican government of France under President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. It lasted from the 1848 Revolution to the 1851 coup by which the president made himself Emperor Napoleon III and initiated the Second Empire. It officially adopted the motto of the First Republic, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. The Second Republic witnessed the tension between the "Social and Democratic Republic" and a liberal form of republicanism, which exploded during the June Days uprising of 1848.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
  Monarchists 3,310,00050.2%450
  Democratic Socialists 1,955,00029.6%180
  Constitutionalist Republicans 834,00012.6%75
 Independents and others495,0007.5%0
 Invalid/blank votes171,000––
Total6,765,000100%705
Registered voters/turnout9,936,00068.1%–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Kings and Presidents

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References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p673 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
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