The 2024 European Parliament elections in France were held on 9 June 2024, as part of the

2024 European Parliament election The 2024 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 6 and 9 June 2024. It was the tenth Elections to the European Parliament, parliamentary election since the 1979 European Parliament election, first direct electio ...

Background

The

Borne government The Borne government ( French: ''gouvernement Borne'') was the forty-third government of the French Fifth Republic, formed on 16 May 2022 and headed by Élisabeth Borne as Prime Minister under President Emmanuel Macron. It served as a caretake ...

lost its majority in the

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Electoral system

A bill creating a single national constituency was approved by the

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in a vote on the first reading on 20 February 2018, and the Senate officially adopted the bill on 23 May 2018, which was promulgated on 25 June after its validation by the Constitutional Council. French members of the

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are elected through a closed list proportional representation system.

Apportionment

When the United Kingdom left the European Union in January 2020, 46 of Britain's 73 seats were abolished and 27 seats were reapportioned to other countries. As a result, the total number of MEPs decreased from 751 seats to 705. For the 2024 election, the

was increased to 720 MEPs with France receiving two new seats.

Outgoing delegation

The table shows the detailed composition of the French seats at the European Parliament as of 13 February 2024.

Running parties

Voting advice applications

In France, ''candidator.fr'' allows users to find the list leader who best matches their convictions through 16 questions that position the respondent and candidates on 4 axes: environmental progressivism vs environmental conservatism, migration protectionism vs migration altruism, European federalism vs nationalism, egalitarianism vs capitalism.

Opinion polling

Graphical summary

Projection of seats in the European Parliament

Results

Electorate

Maps

2024 European elections in France by commune

Aftermath

About one hour after results for the European Parliament election showed that his Renaissance party would place a distant second to National Rally,

Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017. He was Ministry of Economy and Finance (France), Minister of Economics, Industr ...

called for the

dissolution of parliament The dissolution of a legislative assembly (or parliament) is the simultaneous termination of service of all of its members, in anticipation that a successive legislative assembly will reconvene later with possibly different members. In a democracy ...

and snap legislative elections occurring in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July. He decried the results of the election as indicating the rise of nationalists and far-right political firebrands that would threaten France and Europe, who represented the "impoverishment of the French people and the downfall of our country".

Notes

References

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