France 1984 European Parliament election
Final results from ParlGov, read : RPR/UDF connected list won 41 of 81 seats with 43.0% of the vote; 56.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 4.0 points on 1979.
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European Parliament result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RPR/UDF connected listwith Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement and Rally for the Republic | 41 | 43.0 | 8,683,596 | ||
| Socialist Party | 20 | −2 | 20.8 | −2.8 | 4,188,875 |
| French Communist Party | 10 | −9 | 11.2 | −9.3 | 2,261,312 |
| National Rally | 10 | 10.9 | 2,210,334 | ||
| The Greens | 0 | 0 | 3.4 | −1.0 | 680,080 |
| Radical Party of the Left | 0 | 3.3 | 670,474 | ||
| Lutte Ouvrière | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | −1.0 | 417,702 |
| Centre of Social Democrats | 0 | 0 | 1.9 | +0.1 | 382,404 |
± is the change against the France 1979 European Parliament election, party by party.
Votes by party
- RPR/UDF connected list 8,683,596
- Socialist Party 4,188,875
- French Communist Party 2,261,312
- National Rally 2,210,334
- The Greens 680,080
- Radical Party of the Left 670,474
- Lutte Ouvrière 417,702
- Centre of Social Democrats 382,404
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.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
56.7% of the 36,880,688 registered voters cast a ballot (20,911,350 ballots), down 4.0 points on 1979. 20,180,934 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- RPR/UDF connected list43.0% of votes50.6% of seats
- Socialist Party20.8% of votes24.7% of seats
- French Communist Party11.2% of votes12.3% of seats
- National Rally10.9% of votes12.3% of seats
- The Greens3.4% of votes0.0% of seats
- Radical Party of the Left3.3% of votes0.0% of seats
- Lutte Ouvrière2.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 2.9 by seats; RPR/UDF connected list led Socialist Party by 22.2 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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