France 1981 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 268 of 474 seats with 36.0% of the vote; 70.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 12.4 points on 1978.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 268 | +166 | 36.0 | +13.2 | 8,947,811 |
| Rally for the Republic | 80 | −62 | 20.7 | −1.8 | 5,141,101 |
| French Communist Party | 43 | −43 | 16.1 | −4.5 | 4,003,025 |
| Radical Party | 0 | 0 | 10.6 | +8.7 | 2,637,981 |
| Centre of Social Democrats | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | +0.1 | 1,319,213 |
| National Centre of Independents and Peasants | 10 | 0 | 2.6 | −0.2 | 643,826 |
| Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement | 59 | −65 | 2.2 | 547,616 | |
| Radical Party of the Left | 14 | +14 | 1.1 | −1.1 | 269,343 |
| The Greens | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | −0.9 | 265,647 |
± is the change against the France 1978 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 8,947,811
- Rally for the Republic 5,141,101
- French Communist Party 4,003,025
- Radical Party 2,637,981
- Centre of Social Democrats 1,319,213
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants 643,826
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement 547,616
- Radical Party of the Left 269,343
- The Greens 265,647
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
70.9% of the 35,536,041 registered voters cast a ballot (25,182,031 ballots), down 12.4 points on 1978. 24,822,945 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1962 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Socialist Party36.0% of votes56.5% of seats
- Rally for the Republic20.7% of votes16.9% of seats
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement2.2% of votes12.4% of seats
- French Communist Party16.1% of votes9.1% of seats
- Radical Party of the Left1.1% of votes3.0% of seats
- National Centre of Independents and Peasants2.6% of votes2.1% of seats
- Radical Party10.6% of votes0.0% of seats
- Centre of Social Democrats5.3% 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 4.7 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Socialist Party led Rally for the Republic by 15.3 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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