LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is expected in Calvados, in the 6th district, where she is a legislative candidate. The latest news live.
The essential
- On June 12 and 19, the legislative elections will take place. The French will elect their 577 deputies, who will sit in the National Assembly.
- Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is going to Calvados today to meet entrepreneurs there. She is campaigning for the legislative elections in the 6th district.
- Marine Le Pen also goes to the constituency where she is running in the legislative elections: she is expected in Hénin-Beaumont, in Pas-de-Calais.
- French people living abroad registered on the consular lists can start voting online today in the legislative elections, and have until June 1st.
- An Opinion Way survey for The echoes, published Wednesday, May 25, Place Ensemble! the presidential majority leads the voting intentions in the first round of the legislative elections, with 26%, ahead of Nupes (25%). In the second round, the presidential camp would win an absolute majority in the Assembly, with 295 to 335 seats.
- Follow on this page the latest campaign news, polls, and information on how the ballot works.
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09:50 – French people living abroad can vote online in the legislative elections today
For French people residing abroad who are registered on the consular lists, there are four methods of voting for these legislative elections: they can vote at the ballot box or by proxy, but also by post or by internet. For this last method, the vote opens from this Friday noon and until Wednesday, June 1st. French people living abroad will also be able to go to the polls for a first round slightly earlier than in mainland France: residents of the American continent will vote on June 4, and the others on June 5.
09:41 – Elisabeth Borne will travel to Calvados
The Prime Minister is also a candidate for the 2022 legislative elections. Elisabeth Borne is meeting her government this morning in Matignon to distribute the “roadmaps” to them. After which, she will take the direction of her constituency, the 6th of Calvados, to campaign for the legislative elections. In particular, she must meet with local business leaders. Elisabeth Borne is not from Calvados but her parents lived there. The outgoing MP for the 6th constituency, Alain Touret, is also a member of the presidential majority.
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What are the dates of the 2022 legislative elections?
The first round of the legislative elections is organized in all the constituencies of metropolitan France on Sunday June 12, 2022; the second round takes place on Sunday June 19, 2022. Abroad and in French Polynesia, the first ballot is held ahead of the vote organized in mainland France. In certain departments and overseas collectivities, voters vote in the legislative elections on the Saturday preceding the election in mainland France. These two elections take place only two months after the presidential election, due to the fact that the campaign is in addition to being short and imbued with the dynamics of the presidential election. The nominations of the candidates generally take place at the beginning of May after the sequences of negotiations but the official candidatures must be deposited in the prefecture between May 16 and May 20, at 6 p.m. at the latest. As for the official campaign, it lasts two weeks and starts on Monday, May 30 this year. From this date, municipalities must provide candidates with poster spaces and the media give voice to political parties engaged in the legislative race.
How do legislative elections work?
The men and women appointed deputies during the legislative elections are the representatives of national sovereignty for 5 years, except in the event of dissolution interrupting the legislature. The election is carried out by direct universal suffrage, by a so-called uninominal majority ballot in two rounds in each constituency. In each constituency, a candidate is elected and therefore obtains a deputy seat in the first round, if he obtains an absolute majority of the votes cast and a number of votes equal to a quarter of the number of registered voters.
To qualify for the second round, a candidate must have received in the first round a number of votes at least equal to 12.5% of the number of registered voters in the constituency. But if only one candidate fulfills this condition, then the candidate who came in second place can remain in the second round. If no candidate has obtained the 12.5% of registered votes, the two candidates who come first are qualified for the second round. In the second round, the candidate who comes first, with an absolute or relative majority, is elected. In the event of a perfect equality of votes, the oldest candidate is elected.
Who are the candidates for the legislative elections?
6,293 applications were submitted to the prefecture before the deadline, May 20. According to the electoral code, to stand as legislative candidates, a certain number of conditions must be met: be of legal age on the day of the election; enjoy their civic rights; not be in a case of incapacity or ineligibility provided for by law. A candidate is not obliged, on the other hand, to appear on the electoral list of one of the communes of the legislative constituency he is targeting. It is forbidden to run in several constituencies. It is impossible for a mayor or a person exercising local executive functions to stand as a candidate in a legislative election, since the organic law of February 14, 2014 on the non-accumulation of mandates.
What are the results of the polls on the 2022 legislative elections?
It must be understood that legislative elections are of a very singular nature: in reality there are 577 different ballots, one per constituency, with candidates presenting themselves only in a single territory. Polling institutes do not lend themselves to the exercise of carrying out an opinion poll in each constituency. On the other hand, the pollsters always carry out for the legislative studies of voting intentions by political formation at the national level, for the first and the second round. More detailed analyzes follow with projections in number of seats, with wide ranges.
An Opinion Way survey for The echoes, published Wednesday, May 25, places the presidential majority at the top of the voting intentions in the first round of the legislative elections, with 26%. Just behind, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) is credited with 25%. The National Rally gets 21%, the Republicans and their allies 11%, Eric Zemmour’s Reconquest party 5%. In the second round, the Macron camp won an absolute majority, with between 295 and 335 seats. Nupes won between 155 and 185, LR and UDI between 50 and 70 and the National Rally between 14 and 34.
What is the result of the last legislative elections?
The results of the previous legislative elections had allowed Emmanuel Macron to govern with an absolute majority, since 350 seats out of 577 had been allocated, in 2017, to the parties La République en Marche and the MoDem. The Les Républicains party then became the leading opposition party, with 112 seats. The Socialist Party recorded a very severe defeat, with the election of only 30 parliamentarians at the Palais Bourbon. La France Insoumise had succeeded in forming a parliamentary group, with 17 elected members, the National Rally had brought 8 elected members into the National Assembly. In five years, these figures have evolved over resignations, changes of groups and partial legislative. Here is in the graph above the composition of the National Assembly updated before the result of the 2022 legislative elections.