1852 French legislative election

← 1849

29 February 1852 (first round)
14 March 1852 (second round)

1857 →

Registered

9,836,043

Turnout

61.30%

	First party	Second party

Leader	Adolphe Billault	–
Party	Bonapartists	Opposition
Seats won	253	10

Prime Minister before election

Léon Faucher
Party of Order

Subsequent Prime Minister

François-Xavier de Casabianca
Bonapartists

Legislative elections were held in France on 29 February and 14 March 1852, electing the first legislature of the French Second Empire.

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

Electoral system

The 263 members of the Corps législatif were elected for six-year terms in single-member constituencies via the two-round system.

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Bonapartists			253
	Monarchists			7
	Republicans			3
Total				263

Total votes		6,029,564	–
Registered voters/turnout		9,836,043	61.30
Source: Rois et Presidents