France 1988 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 260 of 555 seats with 34.9% of the vote; 66.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 12.4 points on 1986.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 260 | +62 | 34.9 | +4.1 | 8,381,827 |
| Rally for the Republic | 123 | −23 | 19.2 | +7.7 | 4,614,137 |
| Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement | 130 | +2 | 18.8 | +9.4 | 4,502,712 |
| French Communist Party | 24 | −8 | 11.2 | +1.5 | 2,680,194 |
| National Rally | 1 | −34 | 9.8 | 0.0 | 2,353,466 |
| other right | 8 | +4 | 2.5 | +1.2 | 608,695 |
| Party of Presidential Majority | 0 | 1.5 | 351,257 | ||
| Radical Party of the Left | 9 | −4 | 1.2 | +0.4 | 279,320 |
± is the change against the France 1986 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 8,381,827
- Rally for the Republic 4,614,137
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement 4,502,712
- French Communist Party 2,680,194
- National Rally 2,353,466
- other right 608,695
- Party of Presidential Majority 351,257
- Radical Party of the Left 279,320
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
66.1% of the 37,090,454 registered voters cast a ballot (24,526,787 ballots), down 12.4 points on 1986. 23,994,849 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1945. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Socialist Party34.9% of votes46.8% of seats
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement18.8% of votes23.4% of seats
- Rally for the Republic19.2% of votes22.2% of seats
- French Communist Party11.2% of votes4.3% of seats
- Radical Party of the Left1.2% of votes1.6% of seats
- other right2.5% of votes1.4% of seats
- National Rally9.8% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 12.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.6 by votes and 3.1 by seats; Socialist Party led Rally for the Republic by 15.7 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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