France 1956 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : French Communist Party won 147 of 544 seats with 25.9% of the vote; 82.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.5 points on 1951.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Communist Party | 147 | +50 | 25.9 | −0.8 | 5,514,403 |
| National Centre of Independents and Peasants | 95 | +8 | 15.0 | +1.0 | 3,257,782 |
| Socialist Party | 88 | −6 | 15.2 | +0.7 | 3,247,431 |
| Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans | 51 | 11.7 | 2,483,813 | ||
| Radical Party | 73 | 11.1 | 2,389,163 | ||
| Popular Republican Movement | 71 | −11 | 11.1 | −1.4 | 2,366,321 |
| Rally of Republican Lefts | 0 | −77 | 4.0 | −6.0 | 848,321 |
| Gaullist Party | 16 | −91 | 4.0 | −17.8 | 842,351 |
| other far-right | 0 | 1.2 | 260,749 | ||
| Other parties (seats only) | 3 |
± is the change against the France 1951 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- French Communist Party 5,514,403
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants 3,257,782
- Socialist Party 3,247,431
- Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans 2,483,813
- Radical Party 2,389,163
- Popular Republican Movement 2,366,321
- Rally of Republican Lefts 848,321
- Gaullist Party 842,351
- other far-right 260,749
- Other parties (seats only)
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
For France ParlGov gives the first round's votes and the seats after the second round.
Share of the vote
Turnout
82.7% of the 26,772,255 registered voters cast a ballot (22,138,046 ballots), up 2.5 points on 1951. 21,490,886 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1945. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- French Communist Party25.9% of votes27.0% of seats
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants15.0% of votes17.5% of seats
- Socialist Party15.2% of votes16.2% of seats
- Radical Party11.1% of votes13.4% of seats
- Popular Republican Movement11.1% of votes13.1% of seats
- Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans11.7% of votes9.4% of seats
- Gaullist Party4.0% of votes2.9% of seats
- Rally of Republican Lefts4.0% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.5 by votes and 5.7 by seats; French Communist Party led Socialist Party by 10.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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