French legislative election, 1967

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5 March and 12 March 1967

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All 491 seats to the French National Assembly
246 seats were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Georges Pompidou	François Mitterrand
Party	UDR	FGDS
Leader's seat	Cantal-2nd	Nièvre-3rd
Last election	268 seats	103 seats
Seats won	243^*	117
Seat change	25	14
Popular vote	8,448,082 (1st round) 7,972,908 (2nd round)	4,224,110 (1st round) 4,505,329 (2nd round)
Percentage	37.73% (1st round) 42.60% (2nd round)	18.96% (1st round) 24.08% (2nd round)

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Waldeck Rochet	Jean Lecanuet
Party	PCF	Democratic Centre
Leader's seat	Seine-Saint-Denis	Seine-Maritime (Senator)
Last election	41 seats	60 seats (MRP and CNIP)
Seats won	73	41
Seat change	32	19
Popular vote	5,039,032 (1st round) 3,998,790 (2nd round)	2,829,995 (1st round) 1,328,777 (2nd round)
Percentage	22.51% (1st round) 21.37% (2nd round)	12.64% (1st round) 7.10% (2nd round)

^* Including Independent Republicans.

PM before election

Georges Pompidou
UDR

Elected PM

Georges Pompidou
UDR

French legislative elections took place on 5 and 12 March 1967 to elect the third National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.

In December 1965, Charles de Gaulle was re-elected President of France in the first Presidential election by universal suffrage. However, contrary to predictions, there had been a second ballot. This election marked a process of rebuilding by the opposition.

François Mitterrand's unexpected result, as De Gaulle's challenger in the second round of the presidential election, allowed him to establish himself as the leader of the non-Communist Left. He led the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left (FGDS), composed of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO, socialist party), the Radical Party and several left-wing republican clubs, which concluded an electoral agreement with the French Communist Party (PCF).

The centrist and right-wing opposition to de Gaulle gathered in the Democratic Centre led by Jean Lecanuet, the "third man" of 1965 presidential election. However some centrists refused to integrate into this group and joined the Gaullist Party, which became the Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic (UD5)

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