1798 French legislative election

1798 French legislative election

← 1797 9–18 April 1798 1799 →
298 seats in the Council of Five Hundred and 139 seats in the Council of Ancients
First party Second party   Leader Paul Barras Marie-Joseph Chénier Party Thermidorians Jacobins Seats after 387 175 Seat change 107 105
President of the Council of Five Hundred before election Jacques Antoine Creuzé-Latouche Jacobin Club Elected President of the Council of Five Hundred Marie-Joseph Chénier

Legislative elections were held in France between 9 and 18 April 1798 to elect one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, the lower and upper houses of the legislature, as well as 201 vacant seats. They marked the beginning of the end of the French far-left and rise of the anti-Montagnard and anti-Jacobin groupings. The 1798 elections were partially invalidated by the passage of the Law of 22 Floréal Year VI which saw 106 Montagnards lose their seats by decree of the Council of Five Hundred.