Official campaign, 1st round, 2nd round… Here are all the key dates for the 2022 legislative elections.
Less than two months after the presidential election, the re-elected head of state still has a lot to play for. The legislative elections will determine whether Emmanuel Macron will have a favorable majority in the National Assembly, allowing him to apply his program. Especially since this year, the opposition intends to make the most of these legislative elections: the left bloc, in particular, shows its desire to win this election to impose cohabitation on the President of the Republic. On the far right, the RN would like to obtain a parliamentary group and become the first opposition force. The Republicans hope to save their local establishment, while Reconquest! aims to enter Parliament. Find all the important dates of this election.
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.
May 30: opening of the official campaign
The official campaign always opens two weeks before the first round. From this date, radio and television channels must ensure respect for equal speaking time between the different political forces. Locally, town halls must make poster spaces available to all candidates.
June 4: 1st round in French Polynesia
Polynesians will be the first to cast their ballot in the ballot box for the first round of the legislative elections, which will be eight days earlier than in mainland France. French people residing in America and the Caribbean will also vote on this date.
June 5: 1st round for French nationals living abroad outside America and the Caribbean
The first round of voting will also be brought forward by a week for French expatriates, and will take place on June 5 in all regions of the world except America and the Caribbean.
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.
August 19: deadline for filing campaign accounts