France 1978 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Rally for the Republic won 142 of 474 seats with 22.5% of the vote; 83.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.9 points on 1973.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 102 | +13 | 22.8 | +3.7 | 6,403,265 |
| Rally for the Republic | 142 | 22.5 | 6,333,173 | ||
| French Communist Party | 86 | +13 | 20.6 | −0.8 | 5,791,525 |
| Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy | 0 | −54 | 10.6 | +3.4 | 2,968,014 |
| Centre of Social Democrats | 0 | 5.2 | 1,452,025 | ||
| National Centre of Independents and Peasants | 10 | −5 | 2.8 | −0.6 | 785,886 |
| Radical Party of the Left | 0 | −11 | 2.2 | +0.5 | 606,565 |
| The Greens | 0 | 2.0 | 574,136 | ||
| Party of Presidential Majority | 0 | 2.0 | 548,608 | ||
| Radical Party | 0 | 1.9 | 533,405 | ||
| Lutte Ouvrière | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | +0.9 | 474,226 |
| other left | 10 | 1.4 | 385,158 | ||
| Unified Socialist Party | 0 | −2 | 1.1 | −0.9 | 311,807 |
| Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement | 124 |
± is the change against the France 1973 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 6,403,265
- Rally for the Republic 6,333,173
- French Communist Party 5,791,525
- Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy 2,968,014
- Centre of Social Democrats 1,452,025
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants 785,886
- Radical Party of the Left 606,565
- The Greens 574,136
- Party of Presidential Majority 548,608
- Radical Party 533,405
- Lutte Ouvrière 474,226
- other left 385,158
- Unified Socialist Party 311,807
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement
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
83.2% of the 34,424,388 registered voters cast a ballot (28,656,845 ballots), up 1.9 points on 1973. 28,098,115 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
- Rally for the Republic22.5% of votes30.0% of seats
- Socialist Party22.8% of votes21.5% of seats
- French Communist Party20.6% of votes18.1% of seats
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants2.8% of votes2.1% of seats
- other left1.4% of votes2.1% of seats
- Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy10.6% of votes0.0% of seats
- Centre of Social Democrats5.2% of votes0.0% of seats
- Radical Party of the Left2.2% of votes0.0% of seats
- Party of Presidential Majority2.0% of votes0.0% of seats
- The Greens2.0% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 21.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.2 by votes and 4.2 by seats; Socialist Party led Rally for the Republic by 0.3 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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