Country: | French Third Republic |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1871 French legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1871 |
Election Date: | 20 February and 5 March 1876 |
Next Election: | 1877 French legislative election |
Next Year: | 1877 |
Seats For Election: | All 533 seats in the Chamber of Deputies |
Majority Seats: | 267 |
Turnout: | 75.90% |
Image1: | Jules Armand Dufaure.jpg |
Leader1: | Jules Dufaure |
Party1: | Republican Left |
Party1 Name: | no |
Color1: | E6AF00 |
Seats1: | 193 |
Leader2: | Léon Gambetta |
Party2: | Republican Union |
Seats2: | 98 |
Image3: | Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte.jpg |
Leader3: | Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte |
Party3: | Bonapartists (political party) |
Seats3: | 76 |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Louis Buffet |
Before Party: | Monarchist |
After Election: | Jules Dufaure |
After Party: | Republican Left |
After Party Link: | no |
Legislative elections were held in France to on 20 February and 5 March 1876 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower chamber of the National Assembly. They were the first elections under the French Constitutional Laws of 1875.
The result was a victory for the Republicans. President Patrice MacMahon subsequently invited Jules Simon, who declared himself "resolutely republican and resolutely conservative", to form a government, but dismissed him on 16 May 1877, precipitating the Seize Mai crisis and further elections.[1]