France 1997 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 252 of 577 seats with 23.5% of the vote; 67.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.7 points on 1993.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 252 | +197 | 23.5 | +5.9 | 5,977,045 |
| Rally for the Republic | 139 | −109 | 15.7 | −4.7 | 3,983,257 |
| National Rally | 1 | +1 | 14.9 | +2.5 | 3,800,785 |
| Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement | 111 | −104 | 14.2 | −4.9 | 3,617,440 |
| French Communist Party | 39 | +15 | 9.9 | +0.7 | 2,523,405 |
| The Greens | 8 | +8 | 6.8 | −0.8 | 1,943,774 |
| other right | 6 | −16 | 6.6 | +1.9 | 1,679,369 |
| Citizen and Republican Movement | 7 | 2.8 | 713,082 | ||
| other far-left | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | +0.7 | 644,051 |
| Radical Party of the Left | 13 | +7 | 1.4 | +0.5 | 366,061 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 1 | 0 | 1.4 | −2.3 | 354,249 |
± is the change against the France 1993 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 5,977,045
- Rally for the Republic 3,983,257
- National Rally 3,800,785
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement 3,617,440
- French Communist Party 2,523,405
- The Greens 1,943,774
- other right 1,679,369
- Citizen and Republican Movement 713,082
- other far-left 644,051
- Radical Party of the Left 366,061
- Other parties (seats only) 354,249
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
67.9% of the 39,217,241 registered voters cast a ballot (26,635,942 ballots), down 0.7 points on 1993. 25,334,486 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Socialist Party23.5% of votes43.7% of seats
- Rally for the Republic15.7% of votes24.1% of seats
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement14.2% of votes19.2% of seats
- French Communist Party9.9% of votes6.8% of seats
- Radical Party of the Left1.4% of votes2.3% of seats
- The Greens6.8% of votes1.4% of seats
- Citizen and Republican Movement2.8% of votes1.2% of seats
- other right6.6% of votes1.0% of seats
- National Rally14.9% of votes0.2% of seats
- other far-left2.5% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 20.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 7.0 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Socialist Party led Rally for the Republic by 7.8 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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