France 1999 European Parliament election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 22 of 87 seats with 22.0% of the vote; 46.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 6.0 points on 1994.
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European Parliament result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Partywith Citizen and Republican Movement and Radical Party of the Left | 22 | +7 | 22.0 | +7.5 | 3,874,231 |
| Movement for Francewith Rally for France | 13 | 0 | 13.1 | +0.8 | 2,304,544 |
| Rally for the Republicwith Independent Republicans / Liberal Democracy | 12 | 12.8 | 2,263,201 | ||
| The Greens | 9 | +9 | 9.7 | +6.7 | 1,715,729 |
| Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement | 9 | 9.3 | 1,638,999 | ||
| French Communist Party | 6 | −1 | 6.8 | −0.1 | 1,196,491 |
| Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition | 6 | +6 | 6.8 | +2.8 | 1,195,863 |
| National Rally | 5 | −6 | 5.7 | −4.8 | 1,005,285 |
| Lutte Ouvrièrewith Revolutionary Communist League | 5 | +5 | 5.2 | +2.9 | 914,811 |
| National Republican Movement | 0 | 3.3 | 578,837 | ||
| other right | 0 | 1.8 | 312,450 | ||
| other ecologists | 0 | 1.5 | 268,038 | ||
| other left | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | −0.6 | 178,064 |
± is the change against the France 1994 European Parliament election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 3,874,231
- Movement for France 2,304,544
- Rally for the Republic 2,263,201
- The Greens 1,715,729
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement 1,638,999
- French Communist Party 1,196,491
- Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition 1,195,863
- National Rally 1,005,285
- Lutte Ouvrière 914,811
- National Republican Movement 578,837
- other right 312,450
- other ecologists 268,038
- other left 178,064
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
46.8% of the 40,132,517 registered voters cast a ballot (18,766,155 ballots), down 6.0 points on 1994. 17,647,172 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1979. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Socialist Party22.0% of votes25.3% of seats
- Movement for France13.1% of votes14.9% of seats
- Rally for the Republic12.8% of votes13.8% of seats
- The Greens9.7% of votes10.3% of seats
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement9.3% of votes10.3% of seats
- French Communist Party6.8% of votes6.9% of seats
- Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition6.8% of votes6.9% of seats
- National Rally5.7% of votes5.7% of seats
- Lutte Ouvrière5.2% of votes5.7% of seats
- National Republican Movement3.3% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 8.6 by votes and 7.0 by seats; Socialist Party led Movement for France by 8.9 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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