1876 French legislative election

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20 February and 5 March 1876

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All 533 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
267 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

75.90%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jules Dufaure	Léon Gambetta	Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte
Party	Republican Left	Republican Union	Bonapartists
Seats won	193	98	76

Results by district

Prime Minister before election

Louis Buffet
Monarchist

Elected Prime Minister

Jules Dufaure
Republican Left

Legislative elections were held in France to on 20 February and 5 March 1876 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower chamber of the National Assembly. They were the first elections under the French Constitutional Laws of 1875.

The result was a victory for the Republicans. President Patrice MacMahon subsequently invited Jules Simon, who declared himself "resolutely republican and resolutely conservative", to form a government, but dismissed him on 16 May 1877, precipitating the Seize Mai crisis and further elections.^[1]

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Republican Left			193
	Republican Union			98
	Bonapartists			76
	Centre-left			48
	Orléanist			40
	Legitimists			24
	Constitutionals			22
	Opportunist Republicans			17
	Independents			15
Total				533

Total votes		7,388,234	–
Registered voters/turnout		9,733,734	75.90
Source: Rois et Presidents