France 1962 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Gaullist Party won 230 of 465 seats with 33.7% of the vote; 68.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 8.5 points on 1958.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaullist Party | 230 | +32 | 33.7 | +13.1 | 6,177,841 |
| French Communist Party | 41 | +31 | 21.9 | +3.0 | 4,010,463 |
| Socialist Party | 64 | +20 | 12.4 | −3.1 | 2,279,209 |
| National Centre of Independents and Peasants | 32 | −101 | 11.5 | −8.5 | 2,111,167 |
| Popular Republican Movement | 37 | −20 | 7.8 | −3.3 | 1,443,838 |
| Radical Party | 41 | +18 | 7.4 | −2.3 | 1,360,465 |
| Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy | 18 | 2.3 | 427,821 | ||
| Unified Socialist Party | 2 | 2.0 | 363,842 | ||
| other far-right | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | −0.6 | 88,326 |
± is the change against the France 1958 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Gaullist Party 6,177,841
- French Communist Party 4,010,463
- Socialist Party 2,279,209
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants 2,111,167
- Popular Republican Movement 1,443,838
- Radical Party 1,360,465
- Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy 427,821
- Unified Socialist Party 363,842
- other far-right 88,326
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
68.7% of the 27,540,358 registered voters cast a ballot (18,918,154 ballots), down 8.5 points on 1958. 18,333,788 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1945. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Gaullist Party33.7% of votes49.5% of seats
- Socialist Party12.4% of votes13.8% of seats
- French Communist Party21.9% of votes8.8% of seats
- Radical Party7.4% of votes8.8% of seats
- Popular Republican Movement7.8% of votes8.0% of seats
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants11.5% of votes6.9% of seats
- Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy2.3% of votes3.9% of seats
- Unified Socialist Party2.0% of votes0.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 15.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.9 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Gaullist Party led French Communist Party by 11.8 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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