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French legislative elections were held in September 1791 to elect the Legislative Assembly and was the first ever French election. However only citizens paying taxes were allowed to vote. A plurality of the elected candidates were independents but almost all were affiliated with the three political factions emerging in the new legislatve assembly; the Feuillants the Cordeliers and the Jacobins (Montagnards since they occupied the most elevated in the assembly).