LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS 2022. The first round of the legislative elections was scheduled for this Sunday, June 12, 2022, from 8 a.m., with the opening of polling stations in mainland France. The result of these legislative elections will be known in the evening, but estimates and trends should quickly be issued. Follow our live.
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The 2022 legislative elections begin this Sunday, June 12, with the opening of polling stations, scheduled for 8 a.m. this morning. A little over 48 million voters are called to the polls to elect their deputies. The results of the legislative – or rather the result of each legislative in each of the 577 constituencies – will be revealed from 8 p.m. this evening. Several figures will also be observed: in addition to the candidate scores by candidate in the territories, the major national balances between LREM-Ensemble!, Nupes and RN will be scrutinized. If few deputies will be elected in the first round this Sunday evening, the first projections in number of seats for each political party will also be eagerly awaited. Follow this 1st round of the 2022 legislative elections with all the highlights, the first polling data from midday and all the news until the publication of the results.
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06:40 – It’s the big day, but when will the 2nd round take place?
The first round of legislative elections takes place this Sunday, June 12. Polling stations will open at 8 a.m. The campaign between two rounds will be very short for qualified candidates this Sunday evening since, unlike the presidential election, only a week separates the two rounds. Voters will therefore have an appointment again in the polling stations next Sunday, June 19, 2022.
06:32 – 48 million French people called to the polls for the 2022 legislative elections
Hello and welcome to this live where we invite you to follow the day of the first round of the 2022 legislative elections, this Sunday, June 12, until the publication of the results in the evening. More than 48 million French people are again called to the polls this weekend and the following one to elect their deputies, six weeks after the presidential election which renewed Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee. Overseas voters started voting yesterday. Those of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon were the first to go to the polls, Saturday at 8 a.m. local (noon in Paris). This small archipelago in the North Atlantic, facing Canada, is proportionally the best represented in the National Assembly, with one deputy seat for its approximately 6,000 inhabitants.
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These 2022 legislative elections take place only two months after the presidential election, in accordance with the five-year calendar adopted in the early 2000s. . The official campaign began on Monday May 30 and ended on June 10 at midnight. As a reminder, the first round of the legislative elections has been scheduled in all the constituencies of metropolitan France on Sunday June 12, 2022; the second round was set for Sunday June 19, 2022. Abroad and in French Polynesia, the first ballot was held a week before 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.
6,293 candidates were submitted to the prefecture for these legislative elections. To find the list of candidates near you, use our search engine and enter the name of a city or department to find your constituency. A map also allows you to view the list of candidates at a glance.
No new poll on the legislative elections can be published since Friday June 10 at midnight and it is forbidden to republish any survey during the reserve period, which runs until Sunday June 12 at 8 p.m. Throughout the campaign, Linternaute.com gathered measures of voting intentions in its poll compiler. The last update dates back to Friday evening, the last day of campaigning for the first round.
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 La République en Marche and the MoDem. The Republicans then became the leading opposition party, with 112 elected. The Socialist Party recorded a very severe defeat, with the election of only 30 parliamentarians at the Palais Bourbon. La France Insoumise had managed to form 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 below the composition of the National Assembly updated before the result of the 2022 legislative elections.
The result of these 2022 legislative elections will determine a new political balance of power which 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 he intends to implement will be considerably disrupted. 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. For results on Sunday, refer to the search engine and map featured earlier in this article. A brief analysis of the results by major political parties will also be available via the links below:
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 (50%) 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.