Country: | Second French Empire |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1849 French legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1849 |
Next Election: | 1857 French legislative election |
Next Year: | 1857 |
Election Date: | 29 February and 14 March 1852 |
Registered: | 9,836,043 |
Turnout: | 61.30% |
Image1: | Billault, Adolphe - 1.jpg |
Leader1: | Adolphe Billault |
Party1: | Bonapartists (political party) |
Seats1: | 253 |
Leader2: | – |
Party2: | Opposition |
Seats2: | 10 |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent Prime Minister |
Before Election: | Léon Faucher |
After Election: | François-Xavier de Casabianca |
Before Party: | Party of Order |
After Party: | Bonapartists (political party) |
Legislative elections were held in France on 29 February and 14 March 1852, electing the first legislature of the French Second Empire.
Emperor Napoleon III's Bonapartists won a huge majority consisting of 258 of the 261 seats (five Royalists allied with the Bonapartists). The Party of Order that had won a majority in the 1849 election was banned following their opposition to the 1851 coup by President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.