1792 French National Convention election

none French First Republic parliamentary 1791 French legislative election 1791 1795 French legislative election 1795 August 1792 (primary elections)September 1792 (electoral colleges) All 749 seats in the National Convention 3,360,000 130x130px Portrait Lazare Carnot.jpg Lazare Carnot The Plain Robespierre.jpg Maximilien Robespierre The Mountain François Bonneville - Portrait de Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), journaliste et conventionnel - P2608 - Musée Carnavalet.jpg Jacques Pierre Brissot Girondins President of the Assembly Subsequent President of the Convention Pierre-Joseph Cambon Jacobin Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve Girondins Legislative elections were held in France in August and September 1792 to elect deputies to the National Convention. Primary elections to elect members of electoral colleges were held in August,Crook, 95 with the electoral colleges subsequently voting from 2 to 19 September.Assemblée électorale de Paris 2 septembre, p. XVI The elections established the nation's first government without the monarch, Louis XVI. On 20 September the Convention gathered for the first time. From 26 August the candidates were elected by an electoral college; royalist and Girondin candidates were boycotted.Crook Malcolm Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799 7 March 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-45191-8 94–96 https://books.google.com/books?id=YC00BfUpyWEC 26 September 2022 en On the same day news reached Paris that the Prussian army had occupied Longwy. On 28 August the assembly ordered a curfew for the next two days. The city gates were closed; all communication with the country was stopped. On 29 August the Prussians attacked Verdun. When this news arrived it escalated panic in the capital; the situation was highly critical.L. Madelin, Chapter XXI, p. 252 In the afternoon of 2 September the September Massacres began.Charavay Étienne Assemblée électorale de Paris 2 septembre 1792-17 frimaire an II http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k205053m 1905 D. Jouaust xvi 764234804 fr The electoral colleges voted from 2 to 19 September and lasted three weeks. To be an elector a citizen had to be over 21, resident one year in his department and not a domestic servant. An elector could stand as a candidate in any constituency. To be a delegate or a deputy an elector had to be over 25. If at the first ballot no candidate received an absolute majority of votes cast, there was to be a second ballot at which only the top two candidates of the first could compete.Cole Alistair Campbell Peter French electoral systems and elections since 1789 1989 Gower 978-0-566-05696-3 38–39 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1330499 Campaign According to Malcolm Crook, "Evidence of orchestrated attempts to intimidate rivals is not hard to find."Crook Malcolm Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799 7 March 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-45191-8 94–96 https://books.google.com/books?id=YC00BfUpyWEC&q=Evidence+is+not+&pg=PR6 26 September 2022 enEdelstein Professor Melvin The French Revolution and the Birth of Electoral Democracy 28 May 2014 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-1-4724-0699-6 266, 273 https://books.google.com/books?id=TzxzAwAAQBAJ&dq=election+France+september+1792&pg=PA281 26 September 2022 en In Paris the sections accepted a proposal by Robespierre for a two stage screening process that was initially targeted at monarchists but ended up excluding all Girondins.Jonathan Israel, Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre, p. 274. Results Around 3,360,000 voters participated in the elections.Dupuy Roger République jacobine - Terreur, guerre et gouvernement révolutionnaire 1792-1794. Nouvelle histoire d 25 March 2014 Éditions Points 978-2-7578-3937-9 35–40 https://books.google.com/books?id=X5A_AwAAQBAJ 26 September 2022 fr An absolute majority of the male deputies elected belonged to the Marais party, a political faction of vague but largely moderate policies. Although it is often stated that the Marais won around 389 seats, the leftist Montagnards led by Maximilien Robespierre won around 200 seats and the more moderate Girondin faction led by Jacques Pierre Brissot around 160 seats, there was no clear delineation of political affiliation and seat totals cannot be considered to be hard facts.Ian Davidson 2016 https://books.google.com/books?id=9lWNCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR14-IA20 The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny xiv–xv Profile Books 978-1-84765-936-1 Around 136 of the elected legislators joined the Jacobin club. Aftermath The Convention met for the first time on 21 September. Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve of the Girondins was elected President of the Convention, while Girondins secured most of the posts in the secretariat. However, the elections preceded the fall of the Girondins as a political faction, mainly because of the political and social unrest following the war started by the Girondin-dominated government in the spring of 1792. References Category:Elections in France National Category:18th-century elections in Europe Category:1792 events of the French Revolution Category:French National Convention