Parliamentary elections were held in France on 13 and 14 May 1849.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 673 Voters elected the first National Assembly of the Second Republic. The conservative Party of Order won an overall majority of 450 seats. The Party of Order was a bourgeois, traditionalist, and conservative party opposed to the presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and the subsequent 1851 coup.
Results Vote counts and registered voters listed below are approximate.
Senegal The single Senegalese seat in the National Assembly was created by decree on 5 March 1848.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband, pp1812−1813 Following an order of 5 November 1830 and a law of 24 April 1833, all free-born people and freed slaves in Senegal had full civic and political rights, the only French African colony to give such rights until the end of World War II. The right to vote was given to all men over the age of 25 and who could prove they had lived in their municipality for the previous five years. In total 4,991 men registered to vote, up from 4,706 in the 1848 elections. Result:
Incumbent MP Barthélémy Durand Valantin was re-elected with 65% of the vote. Valantin retired from politics in 1851, but before a by-election could be held, a decree of 2 February 1852 abolished Senegalese representation in the National Assembly.
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