All Vatican elections

1086 Papal Election

elected Victor III

24 May 1086 · The first papal elections · Santa Lucia in Septisolio, Rome

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Elected pope

Victor III

Desiderius

Succeeded

Duration

1 day

Cardinal electors

pre-conclave election

Ballot-by-ballot tallies are destroyed by design — the paper is burned in the stove whose smoke announces the result — so this entry records what the Church documents: the dates, the electors, the number of ballots where known, and the man who walked out onto the balcony.