Country: | French Republic |
Election Date: | 23 and 24 April 1848 |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1846 French legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1846 |
Next Election: | 1849 French legislative election |
Next Year: | 1849 |
Seats For Election: | All 880 seats in the National Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 441 |
Image1: | Général Cavaignac - photo Pierre Petit.jpg |
Leader1: | Louis Eugène Cavaignac |
Party1: | Moderate Republicans |
Seats1: | 600 |
Leader2: | Nicolas Changarnier |
Party2: | Party of Order |
Seats2: | 200 |
Image3: | Ledru-Rollin.jpg |
Leader3: | Alexandre Ledru-Rollin |
Party3: | The Mountain (1849) |
Color3: | E34234 |
Seats3: | 80 |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Jacques-Charles Dupont |
Before Party: | Moderate Republicans |
After Election: | Jacques-Charles Dupont |
After Party: | Moderate Republicans |
Constituent Assembly elections were held in France on 23 and 24 April 1848 to elect the Constituent Assembly of the new Second Republic. Over nine million citizens were eligible to vote in the first French election since 1792 held under male universal suffrage.[1]
Due to the lack of party organisation, seat counts by faction are not definitive, with several authors drawing up different counts. One of the counts is listed below.