The date of the 2022 legislative elections is approaching: the ballot will begin this Sunday, June 12, 2022 for the 1st round, in mainland France. Please note: there is only one week between the two rounds of voting, the second round being scheduled for June 19…
The 2022 legislative elections have never been so close. The dates of the poll, supposed to renew the National Assembly for the next 5 years, have been set for Sundays June 12 and 19, 2022 in mainland France. It is therefore at 8 am this Sunday that the polling stations will open their doors for the 1st round. Voters will have until 6 p.m. in the majority of municipalities and until 8 p.m. in the largest cities to vote. The calendar of these legislative elections is significantly different from that of the presidential election which took place barely 2 months ago: this time, between the 1st and 2nd rounds, only one week will pass and not two. Enough to make these legislative elections flash.
The legislative elections will determine whether Emmanuel Macron will benefit from a favorable majority in the National Assembly for his second five-year term, or if he will have to compromise with the opposition parties to govern. Especially since this year, the opposition intends to play the battle of the legislative elections. What is the campaign schedule? On what date are the French called to the polls? When do the French overseas and abroad vote? What is the date of the return of new deputies to the Assembly? Find the full agenda.
May 20: deadline for submitting applications for the 1st round
Since Friday May 20, 6 p.m., all legislative candidacies have been registered in the prefectures and it is no longer possible to submit new ones. The Ministry of the Interior lists 6,293 throughout the territory. Candidates and substitutes must be at least 18 years old and of French nationality.
27 May – 1 June: online voting for the 1st round among French nationals living abroad
For these legislative elections, French people residing abroad had the possibility of voting by internet. They were also able to go to the polls, but electronic voting was favored by voters living far from polling stations.
May 30: opening of the official campaign
The official campaign always opens two weeks before the first round. Since that date, professions of faith have been broadcast on radio and television. Locally, town halls must make poster spaces available to all candidates.
June 4: 1st round in French Polynesia and for French people in the Americas and Caribbean zone
Polynesians are the first to cast their ballot in the ballot box for the first round of legislative elections, which is thus anticipated by eight days in relation to mainland France. French people residing in America and the Caribbean have also voted since that date.
June 5: 1st round for French nationals living abroad outside America and the Caribbean
The first round of voting is also anticipated by a week for French expatriates, it began on June 5 in all regions of the world except America and the Caribbean.
June 10-15: online vote for the 2nd round among French people living abroad
Once again, the French registered on the consular lists will have the choice between voting online, by correspondence, at the polls or by proxy.
June 11: 1st round in several DROM-COM
Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon will vote one day before the French in mainland France.
June 12: 1st tour in metropolitan France
Voters will vote by constituency. This is a majority uninominal ballot: each voter will support a candidate (and his alternate). To be elected in the first round, you must collect more than half of the votes cast and at least 25% of the number of registered voters. Otherwise, the two candidates who came first are qualified for a second round, as well as the candidates who obtained the votes of 12.5% of those registered.
June 14: submission of applications for the 2nd round
The interval between the two rounds can see the withdrawal of certain qualified candidates in the 2nd round in favor of better placed candidates, in the case of triangular or quadrangular. Those who remain will therefore have to submit their application again to the prefecture before June 14 (included).
June 18: 2nd round in the DROM-COM and French Polynesia
Overseas will vote again one day ahead of mainland France, in constituencies where no candidate will have obtained an absolute majority in the first round.
June 19: 2nd round in metropolitan France
At the end of this second round, each constituency will have elected its deputy (and its substitute) and we will know the overall composition of the National Assembly.
June 21: end of the mandate of the Assembly elected in 2017
The deputies who currently sit in the National Assembly will see their functions end on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, except for re-election. The new Assembly will take office the next day, June 22, 2022.
28 June: entry of elected deputies into the Assembly
Newly elected or re-elected deputies will sit for the first time in the hemicycle on Tuesday 28 June. They will elect, on that day, the President of the National Assembly.