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Legislative constituencies for French people domiciled outside France (French: Circonscriptions législatives des Français établis hors de France) are eleven constituencies, returning one member each to the French National Assembly, elected by French people living outside France. As of 2024, the constituencies represent almost 1.7 million French voters in total.[1]
They were created by the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies, the aim of which was to enable ex-patriates to be represented as such, rather than vote remotely for a constituency on French territory, as was the case previously. Their creation does not increase the overall number of seats in the Assembly, which remains stable at 577, since it is compensated for by a redrawing of boundaries which reduces the number of seats in France itself to 566. These measures were implemented for the 2012 legislative election. There have also been Senators representing overseas citizens since 1982; they are elected indirectly, by the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad.[2][3][4][5]
- ^ Décret n° 2024-129 du 21 février 2024 authentifiant la population des Français établis hors de France au 1er janvier 2024, 21 February 2024, retrieved 2024-07-01
- ^ "Elections 2012 - Votez à l’étranger", French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
- ^ "La représentation des Français établis hors de France", French Senate
- ^ "Redécoupage électoral - 11 députés pour les Français de l'étranger" Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Le Petit Journal, 22 October 2009
- ^ "Députés de l'étranger: comment ça marche?", L'Express, 15 October 2009