France Legislative election 2017 — Results
Election day: June 11, 2017
- La République En Marche: 28.21%, 308 seats
- The Republicans: 15.77%, 112 seats
- Democratic Movement (MoDem): 4.12%, 42 seats
- Socialist Party: 7.44%, 30 seats
- Union of Democrats and Independents: 3.03%, 18 seats
- La France Insoumise: 11.03%, 17 seats
- French Communist Party: 2.72%, 10 seats
- National Front: 13.20%, 8 seats
About this election
The electoral system
The 577 deputies of the National Assembly are elected for five-year terms in single-member constituencies using a two-round system. A candidate winning an absolute majority of the first round (with at least a quarter of registered voters) is elected outright; otherwise, all candidates who win the votes of at least 12.5% of registered voters advance to a run-off, decided by simple plurality. Because the legislative elections follow the presidential vote by a few weeks, they have tended since 2002 to hand the new president a supportive majority — the so-called "presidential bonus".
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 12.44 points separated La République En Marche from The Republicans.
- La République En Marche converted 28.21% of the vote into 308 of 577 seats (53.38%), 25.17 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 43.98% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts