About this election
The 2022 French legislative elections, held on 12 and 19 June 2022, denied the re-elected president Emmanuel Macron the parliamentary majority he had enjoyed since 2017. His Ensemble coalition remained the largest force in the 577-seat National Assembly but fell well short of the 289 seats needed for an absolute majority, producing the first genuinely hung parliament of the Fifth Republic's modern era and ushering in three years of unstable, minority government.
Deputies are elected for five years in 577 single-member constituencies by a two-round system. Candidates reaching 12.5% of registered voters in the first round qualify for the run-off, which is usually a duel but can be a three-way contest (triangulaire). The system rewards parties able to build local alliances and to benefit from tactical "republican front" voting against extremes — a dynamic that would prove decisive for the far right's seat count.
The novelty of 2022 was the unification of the left. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, emboldened by his near-miss in the presidential first round, forged the Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale (NUPES), bringing La France Insoumise together with the Socialists, the Greens and the Communists behind a common programme and a single candidate in most seats. Macron's camp rebranded as Ensemble, uniting Renaissance, the MoDem and Édouard Philippe's new Horizons party. The Rassemblement National, riding Marine Le Pen's record presidential score, sought its long-awaited breakthrough into the Assembly.
Ensemble won 245 seats — a plurality, but 44 short of a majority. NUPES became the main opposition with 131 seats, while the Rassemblement National achieved a historic breakthrough, leaping from 8 seats to 89 and forming the largest single-party group in the chamber. Les Républicains, with around 61 seats, held the balance of power. First-round vote shares were almost tied at the top — Ensemble 25.75% and NUPES 25.66% — with the Rassemblement National on 18.68%. Turnout was again very low, 47.51% in the first round and 46.23% in the second.
Lacking a majority, Macron's prime minister Élisabeth Borne governed by assembling ad hoc majorities and, repeatedly, by invoking article 49.3 of the constitution to pass legislation — including the 2023 pension reform — without a vote, surviving a series of no-confidence motions by narrow margins. The arithmetic of the hung parliament dominated French politics until Macron dissolved the Assembly in June 2024. The Rassemblement National's large, disciplined group normalised the far right as a permanent parliamentary force.
The first-round map captured the new tripartition. Ensemble led across much of the west, the centre and the Paris basin; NUPES topped the vote in Île-de-France, the big cities and the south-west, drawing on urban, young and immigrant-origin electorates; and the Rassemblement National led in the de-industrialised north-east (Hauts-de-France, Grand Est) and the Mediterranean south-east (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), where it would convert first-round strength into dozens of seats. Corsica again returned its regionalists.
Official results from the French Ministry of the Interior — interieur.gouv.fr. The map shows the leading political tendency (nuance) by region in the first round, built from the ministry's results-by-region files.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.