1820 French legislative election

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4 November 1820 (first round)
13 November 1820 (second round)

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	First party	Second party

Leader		Benjamin Constant
Party	Rightists	Liberal
Seats won	187	33

Prime Minister before election

Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis
Doctrinaire

Elected Prime Minister

Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis
Doctrinaire

Partial legislative elections were held in France on 4 and 13 November 1820.

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. Only around 94,000 people were eligible to vote.^[1]