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词条 1848 French presidential election
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  1. Background

     Method of election  Definition of office 

  2. Election

  3. Results

  4. References

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| election_name = French presidential election, 1848
| country = French Second Republic
| type = presidential
| election_date = {{Start date|df=y|1848|12|10}}
| next_election = French presidential election, 1873
| next_year = 1873
| votes_for_election= 7,497,000 (74.8%)
| image1 =
| nominee1 = Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
| party1 = Bonapartist
| popular_vote1 = 5,434,226
| percentage1 = 74.3%
| image2 =
| nominee2 = Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
| party2 = Moderate Republicans (France)
| popular_vote2 = 1,448,107
| percentage2 = 19.8%
| image3 =
| nominee3 = Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
| party3 = The Mountain (1849)
| color3 = E34234
| popular_vote3 = 370,119
| percentage3 = 5.1%
| map_image = Suffrages bonapartistes du 10 décembre 1848.svg
| map_size = 270px
| map_caption = Bonaparte's voters map
| title = President
| after_election = Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
| after_party = Bonapartist
}}

The French presidential election of 1848 was the first ever held. It elected the first and only president of the Second Republic. The election was held on 10 December 1848 and led to the surprise victory of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte with 74% of the vote.

Background

Following the February 1848 revolution, the French replaced the July Monarchy of King Louis-Philippe with a constitutional republic. The new Second Republic was led by a provisional government and then an executive commission, which held democratic elections for a National Constituent Assembly.

The National Constituent Assembly was tasked with drafting a new Constitution for the French Second Republic, including the definition of a new head of state to replace the overthrown monarchy. Constitutional debates took place during the period known as the June days uprising.

Method of election

The procedure for presidential election was ratified by referendum on October 6 and included in the Constitution, which was adopted on November 12. The election was scheduled for December 10.

The election would be held in a single round under the principle of universal male suffrage. If no candidate received a majority of the vote, the president would be elected by a vote of the National Assembly.

Definition of office

The presidency was defined by the terms of the constitution. Rather than the model of the executive committee given by the First Republic, the constitutional committee preferred to entrust executive power in a single individual. The office was given extensive powers to propose legislation, appoint ministers and high-ranking officials, engage in diplomacy, and command the military, though all decisions were subject to approval by the ministers.

Election

The constitution only included provision for one round, and in the absence of a majority for any candidate, the National Assembly would have decided the victor.[1] Louis-Eugène Cavaignac seemed certain to win, and the Assembly would have most certainly elected him in the absence of an absolute majority.

Bonaparte had no long political career behind him and was able to depict himself as "all things to some men". The Monarchist right (supporters of either the Legitimist or Orléanist royal households) and much of the upper class supported him as the "least worst" candidate, as a man who would restore order, end the instability in France which had continued since the overthrow of the monarchy during the February Revolution earlier that year, and prevent a proto-communist revolution (in the vein of Friedrich Engels). A good proportion of the industrial working class, on the other hand, were won over by Louis-Napoleon's vague indications of progressive economic views. His overwhelming victory was above all due to the support of the non-politicized rural masses, to whom the name of Bonaparte meant something, as opposed to the other, little-known contenders.[2]

Results

Presidential Election of 10 December 1848
Candidate Party Votes %
  Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte Bonapartist 5,434,226 74.3%
  Louis-Eugène Cavaignac "Blue" Republican 1,448,107 19.8%
  Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin "Red" Republican 370,119 5.1%
  François-Vincent Raspail Socialist 36,920 0.5%
  Alphonse de Lamartine Liberal 17,210 0.2%
  Nicolas Changarnier Royalist 4,790 0.1%
Total 7,497,000 100%

Bonaparte received a plurality or majority in all departments except the Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Morbihan, and Finistère, all four of which were won by Cavaignac. Thus did Bonaparte become the second president in Europe (after Jonas Furrer of Switzerland) and the first French president to be elected by a popular vote.

References

1. ^Alexis de Tocqueville, Souvenirs (chap. XI), Robert Laffont, Paris, 1986, pp. 831-834.
2. ^http://www.ohio.edu/chastain/dh/frpres.htm
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