1848 French Constituent Assembly election
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All 880 seats in the National Assembly 441 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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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Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
Moderate Republicans | 600 | |||
Party of Order | 200 | |||
Montagnard | 80 | |||
Total | 880 | |||
Total votes | 7,835,327 | – | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,395,035 | 83.40 | ||
Source: Rois et Presidents |
References
[edit]- ^ Sylvie Aprile (2000). La IIe République et le Second Empire. Pygmalion. pp. 79–80.