2007 French legislative election

2007 French legislative election

← 2002 10 June and 17 June 2007 2012 →

All 577 seats to the French National Assembly
289 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout60.4% (Decrease4.0 pp) (1st round)
60.0% (Decrease0.4 pp) (2nd round)
  First party Second party Third party
 
François Fillon (2008).jpg
François Hollande (2007).jpg
BayrouEM (cropped).jpg
Leader François Fillon François Hollande François Bayrou
Party UMP PS MoDem
Leader since 17 May 2007 27 November 1997
Leader's seat Sarthe-4th Corrèze-1st Pyrénées-Atlantiques-2nd
Last election 357 seats 140 seats 29 seats
Seats won 313 186 3
Seat change Decrease44 Increase46 Decrease26
1st round
% and swing
10,289,737
39.54% Increase6.24%
6,436,520
24.73% Increase0.62%
1,981,107
7.61% Increase2.75%
2nd round
% and swing
9,460,710
46.36% Decrease0.88%
8,624,861
42.27% Increase7.01%
100,115
0.49% Decrease3.43%

Map showing the results of the second round.

Prime Minister before election

François Fillon
UMP

Elected Prime Minister

François Fillon
UMP

Legislative elections were held in France on 10 June and 17 June 2007 to elect the 13th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, a few weeks after the presidential election run-off on 6 May. 7,639 candidates stood for 577 seats, including France's overseas possessions. Early first-round results projected a large majority for President Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and its allies; however, second-round results showed a closer race and a stronger left. Nevertheless, the right retained its majority from 2002 despite losing some 40 seats to the Socialists.

Taking place so shortly after the presidential poll, these elections provided the newly elected president with a legislative majority in line with his political objectives – as was the case in 2002, when presidential victor Jacques Chirac's UMP party received a large majority in the legislative elections. It is the first time since the 1978 elections that the governing coalition has been returned after a second consecutive election. The majority, however, was slimmer than the "blue wave" predicted by opinion polls (blue being the colour of French conservatives).


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