France 1973 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Gaullist Party won 178 of 473 seats with 26.0% of the vote; 81.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.5 points on 1968.
- France
- Held
Result
- Gaullist Party178
- Socialist Party89
- French Communist Party73
- Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy54
- Reformist Movement30
- Centre Democracy and Progress21
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants15
- Radical Party of the Left11
- Unified Socialist Party2
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaullist Party | 178 | −104 | 26.0 | −12.0 | 6,167,417 |
| French Communist Party | 73 | +40 | 21.4 | +1.4 | 5,085,356 |
| Socialist Party | 89 | +32 | 19.1 | +2.6 | 4,537,348 |
| Reformist Movement | 30 | 13.3 | 3,149,118 | ||
| Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy | 54 | −10 | 7.2 | −1.2 | 1,700,806 |
| Centre Democracy and Progress | 21 | 3.8 | 914,397 | ||
| National Centre of Independents and Peasants | 15 | +7 | 3.4 | +1.5 | 810,076 |
| Unified Socialist Party | 2 | +2 | 2.0 | −1.9 | 463,537 |
| Radical Party of the Left | 11 | 1.7 | 408,734 | ||
| Lutte Ouvrière | 0 | 0.8 | 194,685 |
± is the change against the France 1968 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Gaullist Party 6,167,417
- French Communist Party 5,085,356
- Socialist Party 4,537,348
- Reformist Movement 3,149,118
- Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy 1,700,806
- Centre Democracy and Progress 914,397
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants 810,076
- Unified Socialist Party 463,537
- Radical Party of the Left 408,734
- Lutte Ouvrière 194,685
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
81.3% of the 29,883,738 registered voters cast a ballot (24,299,210 ballots), up 1.5 points on 1968. 23,752,321 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1956 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Gaullist Party26.0% of votes37.6% of seats
- Socialist Party19.1% of votes18.8% of seats
- French Communist Party21.4% of votes15.4% of seats
- Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy7.2% of votes11.4% of seats
- Reformist Movement13.3% of votes6.3% of seats
- Centre Democracy and Progress3.8% of votes4.4% of seats
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants3.4% of votes3.2% of seats
- Radical Party of the Left1.7% of votes2.3% of seats
- Unified Socialist Party2.0% of votes0.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.7 by votes and 4.5 by seats; Gaullist Party led French Communist Party by 4.6 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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