The Socialist Party has a majority with the support of its government partners: The Socialist Party and its aforementioned partners lack a majority alone, and require the support of the, This page was last edited on 26 September 2020, at 04:17. 80 - 70 - [30], Instead, 64% of UMP voters said they would favour an alliance between their own party and the extreme right for the legislative election. 2B - 43 - [67], All government ministers standing as candidates were elected or re-elected, and were thus able to remain in government. François Bayrou's "Centre for France" alliance had 340 candidates, most of whom were members of the Democratic Movement. If an expatriate votes via the Internet, he or she has a week to do so from 23 to 26 May. 24 - : constituencies for French residents overseas, Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left, Opinion polling for the French legislative election, 2012, "France sets 2012 presidential election dates", "Les dates de la présidentielle 2012 fixées", "Gauche et droite fourbissent déjà leurs armes pour les législatives", "Législatives : le PS veut "une majorité nette", l'UMP veut limiter la casse", "Législatives. 53 - [92] This configuration also happened in several constituencies on the left (see subsection "The two-round electoral system", below). (They immediately lost one, however, as EELV leader Cécile Duflot had to relinquish her seat in order to stay in government, and her seat went to her Socialist running mate.) The Left Front had 531 candidates. The UMP had 501 candidates, and endorsed candidates of allied parties (most notably the New Centre) in 69 other constituencies. [77][78][79][80][81][82][83], On the first round, Le Pen won a plurality of the vote. [57] (In Mayotte, incumbent MoDem MP Abdoulatifou Aly was eliminated with a crushingly low score in the first round. A record number of women were elected: 155 (26.86%). 12 - [4][5] This is what happened in 2002 and 2007. [7][8][9][10] The legislative elections in France are often described as the "third round" of the presidential election. 32 - [76] The Le Pen-Mélenchon duel attracted international media attention, including for what it revealed of attitudes and expectations in an area of northern France hit hard by deindustrialisation and unemployment. [32] Two days before the first round, Alain Juppé called upon party members to resist the "temptation" of local alliances with the far right, arguing on "moral", "pragmatic" and "tactical grounds", highlighting ideological and policy incompatibility and the National Front's stated aim to "break" and replace the UMP. [62] In New Caledonia, both seats were won by the centre-right, anti-independence Caledonia Together party, which gained them from the UMP. [19]) If no candidate is elected in the first round, then the two candidates who finished first and second in the first round advance automatically to the second for a runoff. It no longer has enough seats (15) to be recognised as a parliamentary group on its own,[53] but formed a group (the Democratic and Republican Left) with five miscellaneous left representatives from French overseas departments and territories: Huguette Bello (representing her own "For Réunion" movement; she is a dissident who left the Communist Party of Réunion shortly before the election[54]), Alfred Marie-Jeanne and Jean Philippe Nilor (Martinican Independence Movement), Gabriel Serville (Guianese Socialist Party), and Bruno Nestor Azérot (independent left, from Martinique). Kemel narrowly won the seat (retaining it for the Socialist Party) with 50.1% of the vote, defeating Marine Le Pen. [64], The far left parties, as well as the Pirate Party and the small environmentalist parties, failed to reach the second round in any constituency.[65]. Date: 17 June 2012: Source: Own work: Author: Starus: Licensing . 17 - This enabled the Greens to form an official parliamentary group. The French general election shall take place on June, 10th and 17th 2012, to elect the 14th National Assembly of the 5th Republic, little over a month after the second round of the presidential election on May, 6th 2012. The National Assembly is made up of 577 MPs, a maximum number allowed by article 24 of the Constitution, elected for a 5-year mandate by direct universal suffrage within single-member constituencies. 15 - [60] This was widely seen as a "goodwill gesture" by the Socialist Party, meant to enable the Left Front to pass the 15-member threshold required to form a parliamentary caucus of their own (instead of sitting as "non-aligned" members, which would have resulted in a considerable loss of financial and logistical means). The left-wing vote was split, with the Socialist candidate Philippe Kemel receiving more votes than Mélenchon. [93][94], Solere narrowly won the seat, obtaining votes from the left given Gueant's unpopularity on that side. 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