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The Organic Law of August 2, 1875 distributed the 225 electoral seats in the Senate on the basis of population; but since the highest number of senators for a department was five (Nord) and (save for the single seat for the Territory of Belfort) the lowest two, those departments with the lightest populations were heavily over-represented. Moreover Seine, which was one and a half times more thickly populated than Nord, was allotted exactly the same number of senators, five. Thus the Senate was weighted in favour of the rural electorate.
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Chapman, G. (1962). The Sixteenth of May. In: The Third Republic of France. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00463-8_7
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