1852 French legislative election

1852 French legislative election
← 1849 29 February 1852 (first round)
14 March 1852 (second round)		 1857 →
Registered9,836,043
Turnout61.30%
  First party Second party
 
Leader Adolphe Billault –
Party Bonapartists Opposition
Seats won 253 10
Prime Minister before election

Léon Faucher
Party of Order

Subsequent Prime Minister

François-Xavier de Casabianca
Bonapartists

Legislative elections were held in France on 29 February and 14 March 1852, electing the first legislature of the French Second Empire.

Emperor Napoleon III's Bonapartists won a huge majority consisting of 258 of the 261 seats (five Royalists allied with the Bonapartists). The Party of Order that had won a majority in the 1849 election was banned following their opposition to the 1851 coup by President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.