French legislative election, 1816

25 September and 4 October 1816
All 252 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
Majority party Minority party   Leader Pierre Paul Royer-Collard Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis Party Doctrinaires Ultras Leader's seat Pas-de-Calais none (Duke of Richelieu) Seats won 136 92 Seat change 86 258
Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

The 1816 French general election organized the first legislature of the Second Restoration. The election was held on 25 September and 4 October.

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	136
	Ultra-royalists	92
	Miscellaneous left (Republicans and Bonapartists)	20
	Liberal Left	10

References

• (French) Roi et President