1852 French legislative election

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1852 French legislative election

← 1849 29 February and 14 March 1852 1857 →
Registered 9,836,043
Turnout 6,222,983 (63.3%)
  First party Second party
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Leader Adolphe Billault Unorganized
Party Bonapartists Opposition
Leader's seat Loire-Atlantique Several
Seats won 253 10
Popular vote 5,218,602 810,962
Percentage 86.5% 13.45%

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Composition of the Corps législatif

Prime Minister before election

Léon Faucher
Party of Order

Subsequent Prime Minister

François-Xavier de Casabianca
Bonapartist

The 1852 general election organized the first legislature of the French Second Empire. The election was held on 29 February and 14 March. Out of 9,836,043 registered voters, 6,222,983 voted (representing an abstention rate of 36.73%).

Emperor Napoleon III's Bonapartists won a huge majority consisting of 258 seats out of 261. (5 Royalists allied with the Bonapartists). The Parti de l'Ordre that had won a majority in the 1849 election was banned following their opposition to the 1851 coup by President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.

Results

Party Seats
  Bonapartists "Official candidates" 253
  Monarchists 7
  Republicans 3

Sources


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