France 1986 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 198 of 556 seats with 30.8% of the vote; 78.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 7.6 points on 1981.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 198 | −70 | 30.8 | −5.2 | 8,477,883 |
| RPR/UDF connected list | 0 | 20.8 | 5,723,175 | ||
| Rally for the Republic | 146 | +66 | 11.5 | −9.2 | 3,153,522 |
| National Rally | 35 | 9.8 | 2,701,701 | ||
| French Communist Party | 32 | −11 | 9.7 | −6.4 | 2,663,259 |
| Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement | 128 | +69 | 9.4 | +7.2 | 2,580,121 |
| other right | 4 | 1.3 | 365,883 | ||
| The Greens | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | +0.1 | 341,239 |
| Radical Party of the Left | 13 | −1 | 0.8 | −0.3 | 210,151 |
± is the change against the France 1981 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 8,477,883
- RPR/UDF connected list 5,723,175
- Rally for the Republic 3,153,522
- National Rally 2,701,701
- French Communist Party 2,663,259
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement 2,580,121
- other right 365,883
- The Greens 341,239
- Radical Party of the Left 210,151
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
78.5% of the 36,614,738 registered voters cast a ballot (28,736,080 ballots), up 7.6 points on 1981. 27,490,874 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Socialist Party30.8% of votes35.6% of seats
- Rally for the Republic11.5% of votes26.3% of seats
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement9.4% of votes23.0% of seats
- National Rally9.8% of votes6.3% of seats
- French Communist Party9.7% of votes5.8% of seats
- Radical Party of the Left0.8% of votes2.3% of seats
- other right1.3% of votes0.7% of seats
- RPR/UDF connected list20.8% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 21.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.6 by votes and 3.9 by seats; Socialist Party led RPR/UDF connected list by 10.0 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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