LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. First results of the legislative elections after the vote of the French living abroad for the first round. Nupes is present in the second round in 10 constituencies out of 11. Despite the defeat of Manuel Valls, the presidential majority is also well placed. Discover the results of the legislative elections.
The essential
- In 6 days, the French will vote in the first round of the legislative elections. They will elect in each of the 577 French constituencies their deputy to sit in the Assembly.
- The first results of the legislative elections have fallen. The New Popular Ecological and Social Union placed its candidates in the lead in two of the 11 constituencies for French people living abroad. The left alliance has run-off candidates almost everywhere except the 8th constituency.
- According to the results of the legislative elections of the first round, the candidates invested by the majority came first in eight constituencies of French people living abroad. The outgoing deputy, Joachim Son-Forget, elected in 2017 for the Republic on the move, was beaten in the first round. The voters of the 6th district preferred Marc Ferracci (LREM), an economist close to President Emmanuel Macron.
- Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced that he had been beaten in the first round of the legislative elections in the 5th constituency of French people living abroad. Candidate under the banner of the presidential majority, he obtained only 15% of the votes. LREM has decided to support the dissident candidate Stéphane Vojetta when he had been expelled from the party for having maintained his candidacy against Manuel Valls.
- The Cluster17 institute poll, published on Friday June 3, places Nupes at the top of voting intentions in the first round of legislative elections, with 31%, ahead of the presidential majority (27%) and the RN (19%). In the second round, according to the Elabe poll of June 1, the absolute majority is not assured for Ensemble!, but it seems illusory for Nupes: the pollsters give hope to Jean-Luc Mélenchon around 180 deputies at most, far from the 289 elected officials needed to impose cohabitation.
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11:03 – Result of the legislative elections in the 6th constituency: Joachim Son-Forget beaten in the 1st round
In the 6th constituency (Switzerland and Liechtenstein), Marc Ferracci (LRM) came first, with 36.48% of the vote. Emmanuel Macron’s relative will face Magali Mangin (Nupes), who came in second place with 20.27% of the vote. For the outgoing deputy, Joachim Son-Forget, the results of the legislative elections are final. With only 4.43% of the votes cast in the first round, the elected official in 2017 under the LRM label who became a supporter of Reconquête!, will not run for a second term.
10:44 – Result of the legislative elections in the 1st constituency: the outgoing deputy of the majority in the second round
In the 1st constituency (North America), outgoing MP Roland Lescure (LRM), won 35.87% of the vote in the first round. He will face the Nupes candidate, Florence Roger, who is hot on his heels with 33.43% of the vote. A close duel in perspective for the presidential majority which faces the good results of the left alliance according to the first results of the 2022 legislative elections.
10:32 – Result of the legislative elections in the 9th constituency: Nupes in the lead ahead of the candidate LREM
The outgoing deputy (LRM), M’jid El Guerrab had decided not to stand for re-election in the 9th constituency (Maghreb and West Africa) after appealing his sentence to one year in prison and two years in ineligibility for the attack with a helmet on a former socialist leader, Boris Faure, in 2017. The presidential majority therefore invested Elisabeth Moreno, former Minister for Gender Equality. She qualified for the second round with 28.05% of the vote. But she arrived behind Karim Ben Cheikh, the candidate of Génération.s, invested by Nupes, which totals 39.99% of the vote.
10:24 – MP Stéphane Vojetta believes that LREM made “a bad decision”
Manuel Valls’ candidacy was visibly badly received by LREM voters in the 5th constituency of French people living abroad. Considered as a parachute drop, the candidacy of the former Prime Minister did not go beyond the first round of the legislative elections (15%) after the legislative results. Stéphane Vojetta, the outgoing MP and dissident candidate from LREM is well ahead (25%). “My score shows that French people living abroad want a rooted deputy, a local deputy. I am proud to have maintained my candidacy and to have said no to a bad decision. My party made a mistake by investing Manuel Valls”, indicated the outgoing deputy to the Parisian.
10:15 – Manuel Valls beaten in the 1st round according to the first results of the legislative elections
Return failed for Manuel Valls. The results of the legislative show that the former Prime Minister was sharply beaten this Sunday from the 1st round in the 5th constituency of French people living abroad. Invested by the presidential majority, the ex-socialist came third with 15% of the vote. He is preceded by the candidate of Nupes, Renaud Le Berre, who came first (27%). The outgoing deputy and dissident candidate from LREM, Stéphane Vojetta, is also ahead of him (25%). “If dissidence and division have sown confusion, I cannot ignore my score and the fact that my candidacy has not convinced”, indicated Manuel Valls, Sunday June 5.
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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.
The result of these 2022 legislative elections will determine the political balance of power that will structure Emmanuel Macron’s second term: the re-elected president hopes to once again have an absolute majority in the Assembly, otherwise the program it intends to implement will have to be amended. These legislative elections are in fact a new match between the three formations which now represent the political triptych of the country: the radical left carried by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the parties of the presidential majority united under the label Together! and the sovereignist and nationalist right of Marine Le Pen.
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.