French legislative election, 1849

French legislative election, 1849

← 1848 13 and 14 May 1849 1852 →
All 705 seats of the National Assembly 353 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Odilon Barrot Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Louis-Eugène Cavaignac Party Party of Order Democratic Socialist Moderate Republican Leader's seat Aisne Seine Lot Seats won 450 180 75 Popular vote 3,310,000 1,955,000 834,000 Percentage 50.2% 29.6% 12.6%
Composition of the National Assembly
Prime Minister before election Odilon Barrot Party of Order Elected Prime Minister Party of Order

Odilon Barrot
Party of Order

Party of Order

Parliamentary elections were held in France on 13 and 14 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.