Country: | French Republic |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1848 French Constituent Assembly election |
Previous Year: | 1848 |
Next Election: | 1852 French legislative election |
Next Year: | 1852 |
Election Date: | 13 and 14 May 1849 |
Seats For Election: | All 705 seats in the National Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 353 |
Image1: | Camille Hyacinthe Odilon Barrot.jpg |
Leader1: | Odilon Barrot |
Party1: | Party of Order |
Seats1: | 450 |
Popular Vote1: | 3,310,000 |
Percentage1: | 50.20% |
Leader2: | Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin |
Party2: | The Mountain (1849) |
Seats2: | 180 |
Popular Vote2: | 1,955,000 |
Percentage2: | 29.65% |
Image3: | Général Cavaignac - photo Pierre Petit.jpg |
Leader3: | Louis-Eugène Cavaignac |
Party3: | Moderate Republicans (France, 1848–1870) |
Seats3: | 75 |
Popular Vote3: | 834,000 |
Percentage3: | 12.65% |
Prime Minister | |
Before Party: | Party of Order |
Before Election: | Odilon Barrot |
After Party: | Party of Order |
After Election: | Alphonse Henri, comte d'Hautpoul |
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 Party of Order won an overall majority of 450 seats. The Party of Order was a bourgeois, traditionalist, and conservative party opposed to the presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and the subsequent 1851 coup.
Vote counts and registered voters listed below are approximate.