France 2004 European Parliament election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 31 of 78 seats with 28.9% of the vote; 42.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 4.0 points on 1999.
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European Parliament result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 31 | +9 | 28.9 | +6.9 | 4,960,264 |
| Union for a Popular Movement / The Republicans | 17 | 16.6 | 2,856,158 | ||
| Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement | 11 | +2 | 11.9 | +2.6 | 2,051,246 |
| National Rally | 7 | +2 | 9.8 | +4.1 | 1,684,859 |
| Movement for France | 3 | −10 | 8.8 | −4.3 | 1,516,524 |
| The Greens | 6 | −3 | 7.5 | −2.2 | 1,271,072 |
| French Communist Party | 2 | −4 | 5.3 | −1.6 | 900,447 |
| Lutte Ouvrière | 0 | −5 | 2.6 | −2.6 | 440,134 |
| Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition | 0 | −6 | 1.7 | −5.1 | 297,291 |
| Rally for France | 0 | 1.7 | 291,234 | ||
| other ecologists | 0 | 0 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 266,538 |
| Alliance of the Overseas | 1 | 0.6 | 109,529 | ||
| Revolutionary Communist League | 0 |
± is the change against the France 1999 European Parliament election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 4,960,264
- Union for a Popular Movement / The Republicans 2,856,158
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement 2,051,246
- National Rally 1,684,859
- Movement for France 1,516,524
- The Greens 1,271,072
- French Communist Party 900,447
- Lutte Ouvrière 440,134
- Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition 297,291
- Rally for France 291,234
- other ecologists 266,538
- Alliance of the Overseas 109,529
- Revolutionary Communist League
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.
Share of the vote
Turnout
42.8% of the 41,509,136 registered voters cast a ballot (17,763,671 ballots), down 4.0 points on 1999. 17,168,682 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 Party28.9% of votes39.7% of seats
- Union for a Popular Movement / The Republicans16.6% of votes21.8% of seats
- Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement11.9% of votes14.1% of seats
- National Rally9.8% of votes9.0% of seats
- The Greens7.5% of votes7.7% of seats
- Movement for France8.8% of votes3.8% of seats
- French Communist Party5.3% of votes2.6% of seats
- Alliance of the Overseas0.6% of votes1.3% of seats
- Lutte Ouvrière2.6% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.6 by votes and 4.1 by seats; Socialist Party led Union for a Popular Movement / The Republicans by 12.3 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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