1973 French legislative election

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1973 French legislative election

← 1968 4 March and 11 March 1973 1978 →
All 491 seats to the French National Assembly 246 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	81.2% ( 1.2 pp) (1st round) 81.9% ( 0.7 pp) (2nd round)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Pierre Messmer François Mitterrand Party UDR PS Leader's seat Moselle-8th Nièvre-3rd Last election 354 seats 57 seats Seats won 272* 102 Seat change 82 45 Popular vote 8,242,661 (1st round) 10,701,135 (2nd round) 4,559,241 (1st round) 5,564,610 (2nd round) Percentage 34.68% (1st round) 45.62% (2nd round) 19.18% (1st round) 23.72% (2nd round)   Third party Fourth party   Leader Georges Marchais Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (Radical), Jean Lecanuet (CD, above) Party PCF Reforming Movement Leader's seat none Nancy (Servan-Schreiber), Seine-Maritime (Lecanuet) Last election 34 seats 33 (Progress and Modern Democracy) Seats won 73 30 Seat change 39 3 Popular vote 5,085,108 (1st round) 4,893,876 (2nd round) 2,979,781 (1st round) 1,631,978 (2nd round) Percentage 21.39% (1st round) 20.86% (2nd round) 12.54% (1st round) 6.96% (2nd round)
* Including Independent Republicans and Centre, Democracy and Progress.
PM before election Pierre Messmer UDR Elected PM Pierre Messmer UDR

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French legislative elections took place on 4 and 11 March 1973 to elect the fifth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.^{[citation needed]} The results were "mediocre" for the Gaullists.^[1]