The 1877 general election to the

Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon R ...

of the Third Republic was held on 14 and 28 October 1877, during the ''

Seize Mai The 16 May 1877 crisis (french: link=no, Crise du seize mai) was a constitutional crisis in the French Third Republic concerning the distribution of power between the president and the legislature. When the royalist president Patrice MacMahon ...

'' crisis.

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Patrice de MacMahon Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, marquis de MacMahon, duc de Magenta (; 13 June 1808 – 17 October 1893) was a French general and politician, with the distinction of Marshal of France. He served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1 ...

dissolved the Chamber of Deputies elected in 1876, in the hope of a conservative and royalist victory. Although royalists lost seats, Bonapartists increased their seat total over 1876; the Republicans lost 80 seats, but retained a majority. This election proved a serious setback for those hoping for a restoration of the monarchy, such as MacMahon. In the Senate elections of January 1879, the monarchists also lost control of the Senate. MacMahon resigned, and the Republican

Jules Grévy François Judith Paul Grévy (15 August 1807 – 9 September 1891), known as Jules Grévy (), was a French people, French lawyer and politician who served as President of France from 1879 to 1887. He was a leader of the Opportunist Republicans, ...

was elected president by the

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.Gildea, R., ''Children of the Revolution'', London, 2008, p. 253-254 Along with the 1997 election, it is a rare case of an election in which the sitting President's party lost a general election which he had called.

Results

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, - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" , Parties and coalitions ! Votes ! % ! Seats , - , rowspan="4" style="background-color:#FFC6D5;border-bottom-style:hidden;", , style="background-color:#E6AF00;", , style="text-align:left;", Republican Left , , , 147 , - , style="background-color:#C0504D;" , , style="text-align:left;", Republican Union , , , 73 , - , style="background-color:#FFC0C0;", , style="text-align:left;",

Centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The c ...

, , , 66 , - , style="background-color:#DE0000;", , style="text-align:left;", Far Left , , , 27 , - , - style="background-color:#FFC6D5;" , colspan="3" style="text-align:left;", Government coalition , 4,860,481 , 60.0 , 313 , - , rowspan="4" style="background-color:#B9DAFF;border-bottom-style:hidden;" , , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;",

Bonapartists Bonapartism (french: Bonapartisme) is the political ideology supervening from Napoleon Bonaparte and his followers and successors. The term was used to refer to people who hoped to restore the House of Bonaparte and its style of government. In thi ...

, 1,617,464 , 20.0 , 111 , - , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;",

Legitimist The Legitimists (french: Légitimistes) are royalists who adhere to the rights of dynastic succession to the French crown of the descendants of the eldest branch of the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the 1830 July Revolution. They re ...

s , 687,422 , 8.5 , 56 , - , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;", Orléanists , 169,834 , 2.1 , 38 , - , style="background-color:;", , style="text-align:left;", Constitutional monarchists , , , 3 , - , - style="background-color:#B9DAFF;" , colspan="3" style="text-align:left;", Conservative opposition , , , 208 , - , colspan="6" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;", , - style="font-weight:bold;" , colspan="3" style="text-align:left;", Total , 8,087,323 , 100 , 521 , - , style="text-align:left;font-size:90%;" colspan="12", Source
Roi et President

References

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Map of Deputies elected in 1877 according to their group in the House, including overseas (in french)
{{French elections 1877 1877 elections in France October 1877 events

Results

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