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France 1967 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Gaullist Party won 191 of 470 seats with 33.0% of the vote; 81.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 12.4 points on 1962.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Gaullist Party191−3933.0−0.77,378,089
French Communist Party72+3122.5+0.65,039,032
Socialist Party118+5418.9+6.54,231,173
Democratic Centre3814.13,155,367
Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy41+235.5+3.21,230,870
National Centre of Independents and Peasants7−253.3−8.2729,980
Unified Socialist Party3+12.1+0.1473,846
other far-right000.6+0.1124,862

± is the change against the France 1962 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Gaullist Party 7,378,089
  • French Communist Party 5,039,032
  • Socialist Party 4,231,173
  • Democratic Centre 3,155,367
  • Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy 1,230,870
  • National Centre of Independents and Peasants 729,980
  • Unified Socialist Party 473,846
  • other far-right 124,862

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

81.1% of the 28,242,549 registered voters cast a ballot (22,910,839 ballots), up 12.4 points on 1962. 22,389,474 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1956 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Gaullist Party33.0% of votes40.6% of seats
  • Socialist Party18.9% of votes25.1% of seats
  • French Communist Party22.5% of votes15.3% of seats
  • Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy5.5% of votes8.7% of seats
  • Democratic Centre14.1% of votes8.1% of seats
  • National Centre of Independents and Peasants3.3% of votes1.5% of seats
  • Unified Socialist Party2.1% of votes0.6% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 10.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.6 by votes and 3.8 by seats; Gaullist Party led French Communist Party by 10.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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