French legislative election, 2012

French legislative election, 2012

2007 ← 10 and 17 June 2012 → 2017

All 577 seats to the National Assembly 289 seats needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Leader Jean-Marc Ayrault Jean-François Copé Cécile Duflot Party PS UMP EELV Leader since 15 May 2012 17 November 2010 16 November 2006 Leader's seat Loire-Atlantique-3rd Seine-et-Marne-6th Paris-6th Last election 186 seats 313 seats 4 seats Seats won 280 194 17 Seat change 94 119 13 1st round % and swing 7,617,996 29.35% 4.7% 7,037,471 27.12% 16.3% 1,418,141 5.46% 2.21% 2nd round % and swing 9,420,426 40.91% 1.4% 8,740,625 37.95% 8.4% 828,916 3.60% 3.15%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Hervé Morin Jean-Michel Baylet Jean-Luc Mélenchon Party NC PRG FG Leader since 16 May 2008 28 January 1996 18 November 2008 Leader's seat Eure-3rd Did not stand None (stood in Pas-de-Calais' 11th) Last election 22 seats 7 seats 18 seats Seats won 12 12 10 Seat change 10 5 8 1st round % and swing 569,890 2.20% 0.17% 429,059 1.65% 0.33% 1,792,923 6.91% 2.62% 2nd round % and swing 568,288 2.47% 1.30% 538,324 2.34% 0.71% 249,525 1.08% 0.55%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Jean-Louis Borloo Jean-Luc Laurent Marine Le Pen Party PR MRC FN Leader since 10 December 2005 27 June 2010 16 January 2011 Leader's seat Nord-21th Val-de-Marne-10th none (stood in Pas-de-Calais' 11th) Last election 0 0 seats 0 seats Seats won 6 3 2 Seat change 6 3 2 1st round % and swing 321,054 1.24% 1.24% 152,160 0.59% 3,528,373 13.60% 9.31% 2nd round % and swing 311,211 1.35% 1.35% 152,514 0.66% 842,684 3.66% 3.58%

Constituency results after the first and second round

Prime Minister before election Jean-Marc Ayrault PS Prime Minister-designate Jean-Marc Ayrault PS

Jean-Marc Ayrault
PS

Jean-Marc Ayrault
PS

Legislative elections took place on 10 and 17 June 2012 (and on other dates for small numbers of voters outside metropolitan France) to select the members of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic – a little over a month after the French presidential election run-off held on 6 May.

All 577 single member seats in the assembly, including those representing overseas departments and territories and French residents overseas, were contested using a two-round system.

The elections came a month after the presidential election won by François Hollande of the Socialist Party. Since 2002, legislative elections immediately follow the presidential ones. This was designed to limit the possibility of a cohabitation, whereby the President and his or her Prime Minister, backed by a parliamentary majority, would be of opposite parties. The aim was also to give the new President and his government a "double mandate", the election of the President being followed by that of a parliamentary majority enabling him to implement his policies. This is what happened in 2002 and 2007. Thus, in 2012, the Socialist Party has asked French citizens to "confirm" the result of the presidential election; Hollande's campaign director Pierre Moscovici argued it would not make sense to have elected a President only for him to be rendered "powerless" by the legislative election: "This President tomorrow must have a majority with which to govern". By contrast, the Union for a Popular Movement, on the right, has repeatedly asked that the left not be given "all the powers" through this election. The legislative elections in France are often described as the "third round" of the presidential election.

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