2024 French legislative election

2024 French legislative election
France
← 2022 30 June 2024 (first round)
7 July 2024 (second round)

All 577 seats in the National Assembly
289 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Current seats
ENS Stéphane Séjourné 249
NFP Collective leadership 149
RN/UXD[a] Jordan Bardella 89
LR[a] 54
Incumbent Prime Minister
Gabriel Attal
Renaissance

An early legislative election was held in France on 30 June 2024, with a second round to be held on 7 July, to choose all 577 members of the 17th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic. The election follows the dissolution of the National Assembly by President Emmanuel Macron, who decided to call a snap election in the aftermath of the 2024 European Parliament election in France in which the opposition National Rally made substantial gains against his L'Europe Ensemble list. The latter lost a considerable number of seats compared to the 2019 parliamentary election.[1]

The legislative election features four main blocs:[2] Ensemble, the coalition of pro-Macron forces including Renaissance, the Democratic Movement, and Horizons; the New Popular Front (NFP), bringing together the main parties of the left, including La France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, The Ecologists, and the French Communist Party; the National Rally (RN), which also jointly supported several dozen candidates backed by Éric Ciotti of The Republicans (LR) in addition to its own candidates; and the vast majority of other LR candidates, who were supported by the national investiture committee of the party.

Pre-election opinion polls suggested that high turnout and the level of tripolarisation of the electorate between Ensemble, the New Popular Front, and the National Rally could lead to an unprecedented number of three-way runoffs in the second round of the election. Analysts also noted that the consolidation of the electorate behind these three main political forces could also result in total institutional deadlock after the elections in the event that no bloc has the votes to secure support from an absolute majority of the National Assembly, which could force Macron to call a second snap election as soon as a year after the 2024 election.

According to provisional results, the RN and their allies secured the largest share of the vote in the first round with 33.15% of the vote, followed by the parties of the New Popular Front with 28.14%, those of Ensemble with 21.27%, and The Republicans and miscellaneous right candidates with 10.22%, with an overall turnout of 66.71%, the highest since 1997.[3][4] On the basis of these results (not accounting for candidate withdrawals after the first round), 306 constituencies were headed to three-way runoffs and 5 to four-way runoffs,[5] with only 94 three-way runoffs and 1 four-way runoff remaining after the publicly announced withdrawals of 132 NFP and allies, 83 Ensemble and allies, and 6 other candidates ahead of the registration deadline for the second round.[6] A total of 76 candidates were directly elected in the first round,[3] and RN-supported candidates qualified for the second round in 444 other constituencies, compared to 415 for the NFP, 321 for Ensemble, and 88 for LR or other candidates on the right (according to Le Monde's classifications of candidates by political affiliation).[7]


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