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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 ...
In all elections where there is a single official to be elected for a given area, including the two major national elections (the election of the President of the Republic and the election of the members of the National Assembly), two-round runoff voting is used.
Legislative elections need to be held during the 60-day period preceding the expiration of the outgoing Assembly's powers. Therefore, legislative elections are usually held in June, some weeks after the presidential election. Until the electoral calendar reform of 2001, legislative elections, apart from early elections, were usually held in March.
Legislative elections are scheduled to be held in France by 2029 to elect all 577 members of the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. [1]The 2024 elections resulted into a hung parliament and a minority government led by Michael Barnier being appointed by president Emmanuel Macron.
Turnout was 72%, the lowest in a presidential election run-off since 1969. [5] Le Pen conceded defeat after exit projections became available. The presidential election was followed by the 2022 French legislative election, held on 12–19 June, to elect the 577 members of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament.
The first triangular elections appeared with the foundation of the two-round majority single-member constituency system. This electoral system was put in place during the legislative elections of 1852, then continued during the Second French Empire. The two-round system then continued under the French Third Republic, from the elections of 1876. [3]
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. The first round took place on 12 June, and the second round took place on 19 June. [1]
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