1830 French legislative election

1830 French legislative election

← 1827 5, 13 and 19 July 1830 1831 →
All 556 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
Majority party Minority party   Leader Jules de Polignac Victor de Broglie Party Ultra-royalist Doctrinaires Leader's seat none (Duke of Polignac) Seine Seats won 282 274 Seat change 76 94
Composition of the Chamber of Deputies

The 1830 general election was an election to the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the French Parliament. The first round was held on 5 and 13 July 1830, the second round on 19 July.

The Chamber was constituted by the Charter of 1814 and deputies were elected for five years, with one-fifth to be re-elected each year.

The voting method, which was used for the last time, was the Loi du double vote ("double voting") as defined in June 1820, combining single-member districts for three-fifths of the deputies, elected by 94,000 registered voters, with at-large voting in each of the departments of France for the remaining seats. This meant that many men could vote twice.^[1]

The election of 1830 was organized during the reign of Charles X of France, but the work of the Chamber proved to be almost entirely under the new July Monarchy, which it created.