Parliamentary elections were held in
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
on 13 and 14 May 1849.
[ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 673 ] 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.
Results
References
French Second Republic
1849
Events
January–March
* January 1 – France begins issue of the Ceres series, the nation's first postage stamps.
* January 5 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Austrian army, led by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, enters in th ...
1849 elections in France
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