European Parliament election, 2004 (France)

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74 seats to the European Parliament

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	François Hollande	Jean-Pierre Raffarin	François Bayrou
Party	PS	UMP	UDF
Last election	22 seats	13 seats	9 seats
Seats won	31	17	11
Seat change	+9	+5	+2
Popular vote	4,960,756	2,856,368	2,053,446
Percentage	28.9%	16.6%	11.9%
Swing	+6.9	+3.82	+2.7

Elections to the European Parliament were held in France on 13 June 2004. The opposition Socialist Party made substantial gains, although this was mainly at the expense of minor parties. The governing Union for a Popular Movement and Union for French Democracy also made gains.

The elections were conducted in seven regional constituencies in metropolitan France, plus an eighth consisting of all overseas departments and territories. Allocation of seats was by proportional representation, with closed lists and no preferential voting, using the rule of the highest average, with a threshold of 5% of the votes in each.

For a national list in alphabetical order, see List of members of the European Parliament for France, 2004–09

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