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France 2009 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Union for a Popular Movement / The Republicans won 29 of 72 seats with 27.9% of the vote; 40.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.2 points on 2004.

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Union for a Popular Movement / The Republicanswith New Centre29+1227.9+11.34,799,908
Socialist Party14−1716.5−12.42,838,160
The Greens14+816.3+8.82,803,759
Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement6−58.5−3.41,455,841
National Rally3−46.3−3.51,091,691
French Communist Party4+26.0+0.81,041,911
Revolutionary Communist League004.9840,833
Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition1+14.8+3.1826,357
other ecologists003.6+2.1625,375
Debout la France01.8304,585
Lutte Ouvrière001.2−1.4205,975
Alliance of the Overseas100.5−0.279,968

± is the change against the France 2004 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Union for a Popular Movement / The Republicans 4,799,908
  • Socialist Party 2,838,160
  • The Greens 2,803,759
  • Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement 1,455,841
  • National Rally 1,091,691
  • French Communist Party 1,041,911
  • Revolutionary Communist League 840,833
  • Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition 826,357
  • other ecologists 625,375
  • Debout la France 304,585
  • Lutte Ouvrière 205,975
  • Alliance of the Overseas 79,968

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

40.6% of the 44,282,823 registered voters cast a ballot (17,992,161 ballots), down 2.2 points on 2004. 17,218,614 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

  • Union for a Popular Movement / The Republicans27.9% of votes40.3% of seats
  • Socialist Party16.5% of votes19.4% of seats
  • The Greens16.3% of votes19.4% of seats
  • Union for French Democracy / Democratic Movement8.5% of votes8.3% of seats
  • French Communist Party6.0% of votes5.6% of seats
  • National Rally6.3% of votes4.2% of seats
  • Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition4.8% of votes1.4% of seats
  • Alliance of the Overseas0.5% of votes1.4% of seats
  • Revolutionary Communist League4.9% of votes0.0% of seats
  • other ecologists3.6% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 10.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.5 by votes and 4.0 by seats; Union for a Popular Movement / The Republicans led Socialist Party by 11.4 points of the vote. How these are computed.

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