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From this it is still possible to determine that Paris and its metropolitan area is one of the most multi-cultural in Europe: According to the 2011 census, 456,105 residents of the municipality of Paris, or 20.3 percent, and 2,117,901 residents of the Paris Region (Île-de-France), or 17.9 percent, were born outside France. [14]
Following the first round of the 2024 French legislative election on 30 June 2024, runoff elections in each constituency where no candidate received a vote share greater than 50 percent were scheduled for 7 July.
Valérie Pécresse of The Republicans took 4.8% of the vote, and Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris and Socialist Party candidate, 1.8%. Both the Republicans and Socialist parties, considered to be the dominant parties until 2017, [3] received their worst results in a presidential election. [4]
France’s prime minister Gabriel Attal gives a speech following the first results of the second round of France’s legislative election at Matignon in Paris on 7 July 202 (AFP via Getty Images)
The two rounds of the election were held on 30 June and 7 July in metropolitan France (France, adjacent islands, Corsica), while each round took place a day earlier in France's overseas departments (Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, French Polynesia) as well as in embassies and ...
France is officially 'colorblind.' But that belies the country's complicated history of policing, immigration, religion and national identity. France struggles to confront one of its biggest ...
Following the 2022 French presidential election in April, in which Emmanuel Macron secured a second term and beat Marine Le Pen, the 2022 French legislative election was held to elect the 577 seats of the National Assembly.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon of La France Insoumise (LFI) came third in the first round with 21.95% of the vote and 1.2% behind second-placed Le Pen, also coming first in the 18–24 and 25–34 age groups, as well in Île-de-France, the most populous region of France. [21] [22]