French legislative election, 1852

French legislative election, 1852

← 1849 29 February and 14 March 1852 1857 →
First party Second party   Leader Adolphe Billault Unorganized Party Bonapartist Opposition Leader's seat Loire-Atlantique Several Seats won 253 8 Popular vote 5,218,602 810 962 Percentage 86.5% 13,45 %
Composition of the Corps législatif
Prime Minister before election Léon Faucher Party of Order Subsequent Prime Minister François-Xavier de Casabianca Bonapartist

Léon Faucher
Party of Order

François-Xavier de Casabianca
Bonapartist

The 1852 general election organized the first legislature of the French Second Empire. The election was held on 29 February and 14 March. Out of 9,836,043 registered voters, 6,222,983 voted (representing an abstention rate of 36.73%).

Emperor Napoleon III's Bonapartists won a huge majority consisting of 258 seats out of 261. (5 Royalists allied with the Bonapartists). The Parti de l'Ordre that had won a majority in the 1849 election was banned following their opposition to the 1851 coup by President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.