2022 French legislative election

Legislative elections in France were held on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The elections took place following the 2022 French presidential election, which was held in April 2022.[3] They have been described as the most indecisive legislative elections since the establishment of the five-year term in 2000 and reversal of the electoral calendar in 2002.[4]

2022 French legislative election

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All 577 seats of the National Assembly 289 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	47.5% (1.2 pp) (1st round) 46.2% (3.6 pp) (2nd round)
First party Second party   Leader Richard Ferrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon Party LREM LFI Alliance Ensemble NUPES Leader's seat Finistère's 6th[lower-alpha 1] Bouches-du-Rhône's 4th[lower-alpha 2] Last election New alliance New alliance Seats before 346 seats 66 seats Seats won 245 seats[lower-alpha 3] 131 seats[lower-alpha 3] Seat change 101 67 1st round % 5,857,364 25.8% 6.5% 5,836,079 25.7%[lower-alpha 4]1.1% 2nd round % 8,002,419 38.6% 10.6% 6,556,198 31.6% 19.9%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Marine Le Pen Christian Jacob Party RN LR Alliance – UDC Leader's seat Pas-de-Calais's 11th Seine-et-Marne's 4th[lower-alpha 2] Last election 8 seats 130 seats Seats before 7 seats 120 seats Seats won 89 seats 64 seats Seat change 82 56 1st round % 4,248,537 18.7% 5.5% 2,568,502 11.3% 7.5% 2nd round % 3,589,465 17.3% 8.5% 1,512,281 7.3% 18.0%
Constituency results after the first round
Constituency results after the second round
Prime Minister before election Élisabeth Borne LREM Elected Prime Minister TBD

For the first time since 1997, the incumbent president of France does not have an absolute majority in Parliament. As no alliance won a majority, it resulted in a hung parliament for the first time since 1988.[5]

The legislative elections were contested between four principal blocs: the centrist presidential majority Ensemble coalition, including Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance, the Democratic Movement, Horizons, and their allies; the left-wing New Ecologic and Social People's Union (NUPES), encompassing La France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, Ecologist Pole, and the French Communist Party, among others; the Union of the Right and Centre (UDC), including the Republicans, the Union of Democrats and Independents, and their allies; and the far-right National Rally (RN). The NUPES alliance was formed in the two months following the presidential election, where the left-wing vote had been fragmented; it consisted of the first French Left alliance since the Plural Left in 1997.[6]

In the first round, there was some controversy among the Ministry of the Interior and news media about which bloc finished first, as both NUPES and Ensemble obtained about 26% of the vote.[2] They were followed by RN on about 19% and UDC with about 11%.[7] Turnout for the first round was a record-low 47.5%.[8] In the second round, where turnout was higher than that of 2017, Macron's Ensemble coalition secured the most seats (245) but fell 44 seats short of an absolute majority.[9][10][lower-alpha 3] NUPES was projected to win 131 (Ministry of the Interior) or 142 seats (Le Monde), while the far-right RN became the largest parliamentary opposition as a party (89). UDC received enough seats (64 or 71) to be a kingmaker in the next government but suffered losses.[9]

The results were perceived by political commentators as a blow for Macron,[10][11] and created the potential for political instability and gridlock.[5]

Talks among the various parties to form a stable majority government began on 21 June.[12]