[3] Godin was elected Deputy of French India on 16 April 1876 by 18,614 out of 18,691 votes, without having formally entered the race or submitted a profession of faith.

[3] After the chamber was dissolved, Godin ran for reelection on 11 November 1877 against the official government candidate, Benoist d'Azy.

He supported the ministry of Jules Armand Dufaure, voted for article 7 of the law on higher education, for invalidation of the election of Louis Auguste Blanqui and against the plenary amnesty.

[2] Godin ran for reelection on 25 September 1881 but received only 463 votes against 30,500 for Louis Pierre-Alype(fr), who was elected.

[4] He spoke in the Senate on legal costs, appropriations needed due to the events in Dahomey in early 1892, and reparations for miscarriage of justice.

On 17 September 1898 when the cabinet of Henri Brisson was formed he was appointed Minister of Public Works in place of Louis Tillaye, who had resigned.

[1] In October 1898 the Brisson cabinet resigned after losing a vote of confidence in the Chamber after various arrests related to the Dreyfus affair.

After the disturbances in the 1908 legislative elections in French India he demanded that the powers of the governor be restricted.