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1848 French Constituent Assembly election

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1848 French Constituent Assembly election

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All 880 seats in the National Assembly
441 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Louis Eugène Cavaignac Nicolas Changarnier Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
Party Moderate Republicans Party of Order Montagnard
Seats won 600 200 80

Prime Minister before election

Jacques-Charles Dupont
Moderate Republicans

Elected Prime Minister

Jacques-Charles Dupont
Moderate Republicans

Constituent Assembly elections were held in France on 23 and 24 April 1848 to elect the Constituent Assembly of the new Second Republic. Over nine million citizens were eligible to vote in the first French election since 1792 held under male universal suffrage.[1]

Results

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Due to the lack of party organisation, seat counts by faction are not definitive, with several authors drawing up different counts. One of the counts is listed below.

PartyVotes%Seats
Moderate Republicans600
Party of Order200
Montagnard80
Total880
Total votes7,835,327
Registered voters/turnout9,395,03583.40
Source: Rois et Presidents

References

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  1. ^ Sylvie Aprile (2000). La IIe République et le Second Empire. Pygmalion. pp. 79–80.