France 1968 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Gaullist Party won 282 of 470 seats with 38.0% of the vote; 79.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.3 points on 1967.
- France
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaullist Party | 282 | +91 | 38.0 | +5.0 | 8,422,413 |
| French Communist Party | 33 | −39 | 20.0 | −2.5 | 4,434,831 |
| Socialist Party | 57 | −61 | 16.5 | −2.4 | 3,662,443 |
| Democratic Centre | 26 | −12 | 10.5 | −3.6 | 2,319,118 |
| Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy | 64 | +23 | 8.4 | +2.9 | 1,863,371 |
| Unified Socialist Party | 0 | −3 | 3.9 | +1.8 | 862,515 |
| National Centre of Independents and Peasants | 8 | +1 | 1.9 | −1.4 | 428,872 |
± is the change against the France 1967 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Gaullist Party 8,422,413
- French Communist Party 4,434,831
- Socialist Party 3,662,443
- Democratic Centre 2,319,118
- Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy 1,863,371
- Unified Socialist Party 862,515
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants 428,872
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
79.9% of the 28,178,087 registered voters cast a ballot (22,500,524 ballots), down 1.3 points on 1967. 22,117,138 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Gaullist Party38.0% of votes60.0% of seats
- Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy8.4% of votes13.6% of seats
- Socialist Party16.5% of votes12.1% of seats
- French Communist Party20.0% of votes7.0% of seats
- Democratic Centre10.5% of votes5.5% of seats
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants1.9% of votes1.7% of seats
- Unified Socialist Party3.9% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 19.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.3 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Gaullist Party led French Communist Party by 18.0 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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