French legislative election, 1820

4 and 13 November 1820

All 434 seats to the Chamber of Deputies

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Élie Decazes	Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis	Benjamin Constant
Party	Doctrinaires	Ultras	Liberal Left
Leader's seat	Seine	none (Duke of Richelieu)	Seine
Seats won	194	160	80
Seat change	58	68	70

Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

The 1820 general election organized the second legislature of the Second Restoration. The election was held on 4 and 13 November.

Process

Only citizens paying taxes were eligible to vote. All electors elected three-fifths of all deputies in the first round. In the second round, the most heavily taxed voted again to elect the remaining two-fifths of deputies.

Results

Party		Seats
	Doctrinaires	194
	Ultra-royalists	160
	Liberal Left	80

Sources

Roi et President

Elections and referendums in France

Presidential	1848 1965 1969 1974 1981 1988 1995 2002 2007 2012 2017

Parliamentary	1791 1792 1795 1798 1815 1816 1817 1819 1820 1824 1827 1830 1831 1834 1837 1839 1842 1846 1848 1849 1852 1857 1863 1869 1871 1876 1877 1881 1885 1889 1893 1898 1902 1906 1910 1914 1919 1924 1928 1932 1936 1945 1946 (Jun) 1946 (Nov) 1951 1956 1958 1962 1967 1968 1973 1978 1981 1986 1988 1993 1997 2002 2007 2012 2017

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Municipal	1959 1965 1971 1977 1983 1989 1995 2001 2008 2014

European	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Referendums	1793 1795 1800 1802 1804 1815 1851 1852 1870 1945 1946 (May) 1946 (Oct) 1958 1961 1962 (Jun) 1962 (Oct) 1969 1972 1988 1992 2000 2005

See also: Indirect presidential and Senate elections Elections in French Guiana French Polynesia Guadeloupe Martinique Mayotte New Caledonia Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Wallis and Futuna

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