French legislative election, 1849
Encyclopedia
French legislative elections were held on 13 May 1849. Voters elected the first National Assembly of the Second Republic
.
The conservative Parti de l'Ordre
won an overall majority of 450 seats.The Parti de l'Ordre was a bourgeois, traditionalist, and conservative party opposed to the Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
and the subsequent 1851 coup
.
won 53% of the vote against 25% for the democratic-socialists (Montagne
) and only 11% for moderate Republicans, who suffered a major setback.
French Second Republic
The French Second Republic was the republican government of France between the 1848 Revolution and the coup by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte which initiated the Second Empire. It officially adopted the motto Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité...
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The conservative Parti de l'Ordre
Parti de l'Ordre
The Parti de l'Ordre was a French Orleanist and Legitimist conservative political party that existed during the Second Republic....
won an overall majority of 450 seats.The Parti de l'Ordre was a bourgeois, traditionalist, and conservative party opposed to the Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon III of France
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was the President of the French Second Republic and as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I, christened as Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte...
and the subsequent 1851 coup
French coup of 1851
The French coup d'état on 2 December 1851, staged by Prince Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte , ended in the successful dissolution of the French National Assembly, as well as the subsequent re-establishment of the French Empire the next year...
.
Results
The Parti de l'OrdreParti de l'Ordre
The Parti de l'Ordre was a French Orleanist and Legitimist conservative political party that existed during the Second Republic....
won 53% of the vote against 25% for the democratic-socialists (Montagne
The Mountain (1849)
The Mountain was a political grouping in the French legislative election, 1849. It drew its name from The Mountain, a group active in the early period of the French Revolution...
) and only 11% for moderate Republicans, who suffered a major setback.
| Party | Popular Vote | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parti de l'Ordre Parti de l'Ordre The Parti de l'Ordre was a French Orleanist and Legitimist conservative political party that existed during the Second Republic.... |
53% | 450 | |
| Montagne The Mountain (1849) The Mountain was a political grouping in the French legislative election, 1849. It drew its name from The Mountain, a group active in the early period of the French Revolution... |
25% | 180 | |
| Republicans | 11% | 75 | |