French legislative election, 1839

2 and 6 March 1839

	First party	Second party	Third party


Leader	Jean-de-Dieu Soult	Louis-Mathieu Molé	Antoine Pierre Berryer
Party	Miscellaneous left	Orleanist	Legitimist
Seats won	240	199	20

The 1839 general election organized the fifth legislature of the July Monarchy. The election was held on 2 March and 6 July.

Only citizens paying taxes were eligible to vote. The left won the election with a majority of 240 seats over the right.

Results

Party		Seats
	Miscellaneous left (Republicans, doctrinaires, constitutionalists)	240
	Orleanist independents	199
	Legitimists	20

Louis-Philippe of France did not have a majority and dissolved the legislature on 16 June 1842.

Sources

Roi et President

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