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The Senate (Sénat) has 348 members, elected for six-year terms. 328 members are elected by an electoral college consisting of elected representatives from each of 96 departments in metropolitan France, 8 of which are elected from other dependencies, and 12 of which are elected by the French Assembly of French Citizens Abroad (Assemblée des ...
There were two presidential elections in France during the republican government known as the Fourth Republic (1946–1958). They were held in 1947 and 1953. The president was elected by the Congress of the French Parliament, a joint meeting of both houses of the French Parliament [11] (the National Assembly and the Council of the Republic).
Four incumbent presidents —Charles de Gaulle (in 1965), François Mitterrand (in 1988), Jacques Chirac (in 2002) and Emmanuel Macron (in 2022)— were elected to second terms. Two incumbent presidents — Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (in 1981) and Nicolas Sarkozy (in 2012)— were defeated in the second round while seeking for re-election.
1792 French National Convention election; 1946 French India local elections; 1946 French India Representative Assembly election; 1951 French India Representative Assembly election; 1955 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election; 1959 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election; 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies
Legislative elections in France (French: élections législatives en France), or general elections (French: élections générales) per the Constitution's wording, determine who becomes Members of Parliament, each with the right to sit in the National Assembly, which is the lower house of the French Parliament.
The first round of these elections is scheduled for 30 June and the second on 7 July. How does the vote work? Candidates in the 577 seats of the National Assembly, the lower chamber of France’s ...
The 1958 election was the first of the French Fifth Republic and took place on 21 December. It was the only French presidential election by the electoral college (gathering the members of the French Parliament, the Conseils Généraux, the overseas assemblies, and tens of thousands of mayors, deputy mayors and city council members). To win, a ...
Presidential elections were held in France on 23 April and 7 May 2017. Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party (PS) was eligible to run for a second term, but declared on 1 December 2016 that he would not seek reelection in light of low approval ratings, making him the first incumbent head of state of the Fifth Republic not to seek reelection.