1849 French legislative election

none January 2021 French Republic Parliamentary 1848 French Constituent Assembly election 1848 1852 French legislative election 1852 13 and 14 May 1849 All 705 seats in the National Assembly 353 130x130px Camille Hyacinthe Odilon Barrot.jpg Odilon Barrot Party of Order 450 3,310,000 50.20% Ledru-Rollin.jpg Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin The Mountain (1849) 180 1,955,000 29.65% Général Cavaignac - photo Pierre Petit.jpg Louis-Eugène Cavaignac Moderate Republicans (France, 1848–1870) 75 834,000 12.65% Résultats des élections législatives françaises du 13 mai 1849.jpg Results by department (monarchists in blue, democratic socialists in red) Prime Minister Party of Order Odilon Barrot Party of Order Alphonse Henri, comte d'Hautpoul Parliamentary elections were held in France on 13 and 14 May 1849.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 673 978-3-8329-5609-7 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. Results Vote counts and registered voters listed below are approximate.File:French National Assembly 1849.svg Party of Order 3310000 450 Democratic Socialists 1955000 180 Constitutionalist Republicans 834000 75 Independents and others 495000 0 Independent politician 171000 9936000 Nohlen & Stöver, Rois et Presidents Senegal The single Senegalese seat in the National Assembly was created by decree on 5 March 1848.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, pp1812−1813 Following an order of 5 November 1830 and a law of 24 April 1833, all free-born people and freed slaves in Senegal had full civic and political rights, the only French African colony to give such rights until the end of World War II. The right to vote was given to all men over the age of 25 and who could prove they had lived in their municipality for the previous five years. In total 4,991 men registered to vote, up from 4,706 in the 1848 elections. Result: Barthélémy Durand Valantin 1319 Masson 472 Petiton 240 2 4991 Sternberger et al., National Assembly Incumbent MP Barthélémy Durand Valantin was re-elected with 65% of the vote. Valantin retired from politics in 1851, but before a by-election could be held, a decree of 2 February 1852 abolished Senegalese representation in the National Assembly. References Category:French Second Republic Category:Legislative elections in France Legislative