French Presidential and Legislative Elections 2017-News and Updates

[Nilgiri]

Do we have a map of turnout by commune or similar? I just want to see which areas are the most politically active right now.

 

[LA se Karachi]

Do we have a map of turnout by commune or similar? I just want to see which areas are the most politically active right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_legislative_election,_2017

 

[Vergennes]

PM Philippe said he wasn't against the idea that part of the parliament's seats (10 or 20%...) should be earned proportionally to the % of votes.

How the Assemblée Nationale is projected to look like with the current electoral system ;

If 10% of the seats were earned proprtionally ;

If 20% of the seats were earned proportionally ;

Now if all the seats were earned proportionally.

@Nilgiri @LA se Karachi

 

[LA se Karachi]

@Vergennes

When will the run-off elections be held?

 

[Vergennes]

@Vergennes

When will the run-off elections be held?

This sunday !
The official campaign will end tomorrow and we will head back to the polls on the 18th of june. As in the first round,polling stations will open at 8am and close at 6pm. They will remain open til 8pm in big cities. Forecast will be made as usual at 8pm.

The French living abroad and those in some overseas territories will vote on saturday.

4 candidates have already been elected in the first round. 2 are from LREM,1 is from UDI and one is from miscellaneous left (elected in an overseas territory).

The second round will see 572 two way contests and 1 three way contest.

 

[Vergennes]

The turnout rate for the second round of the legislative election was 17,75% at 12pm. It was at 21,41% in 2012 at the same hour.

 

[Vergennes]

The turnout rate for the second round of the Legislative election was 35,33% at 5pm,way lower than when it was 46,42% at the same hour in 2012.

The polling stations across the country will start to close in less than one hour (6pm),but will remain open til 8pm in big cities.

 

[Vergennes]

So the first forecast,majority is 289 seats ;

LREM + MoDem : 360 seats. (315 LREM - 45 MoDem)
LR + UDI + Miscellaneous right : 133 seats.
FN : 6 seats.
PS + Greens + Miscellaneous left + Radical Party of the Left : 46 seats.
Unbowed France + Communist party : 26 seats.
Others (Arise France,regionalists,extreme right... ) : 6 seats.

@LA se Karachi @Nilgiri

I am pretty happy with the result. Macron got the majority,but I was afraid that there couldn't be a sizeable opposition against him. There would have been a real problem of democracy if En Marche had totally free hands.

EDIT : Marine Le Pen is going to enter the parliament.

Abstention is historic and reached levels nowhere seen under the 5th Republic.

 

[LA se Karachi]

Yes, a huge win for En Marche ! I too was worried that there wouldn't be any real opposition after the seeing results of the first round. But fortunately, both the left and the right have a substantial amount of seats.


Macron:

 

[Vergennes]

Yes, a huge win for En Marche! I too was worried that there wouldn't be any real opposition after the seeing results of the first round. But fortunately, both the left and the right have a substantial amount of seats.

Current number of seats (still counting)

LREM : 244
MoDem : 36
LR : 101
UDI : 16
Miscellaneous right : 6
FN : 8
Extreme right : 1
Regionalists : 5

Socialist Party : 27
French Communist Party : 9
Unbowed France : 7
Radical Party of the Left : 3
Greens : 1
Miscellaneous left : 11

Others : 2

Thanks to Bayrou's alliance with Macron,the MoDem is coming back to the Palais Bourbon by the big door. (they had only 1 MP)

 

[LA se Karachi]

Current number of seats (still counting)

LREM : 244
MoDem : 36
LR : 101
UDI : 16
Miscellaneous right : 6
FN : 8
Extreme right : 1
Regionalists : 5

Socialist Party : 27
French Communist Party : 9
Unbowed France : 7
Radical Party of the Left : 3
Greens : 1
Miscellaneous left : 11

Others : 2

Thanks to Bayrou's alliance with Macron,the MoDem is coming back to the Palais Bourbon by the big door. (they had only 1 MP)

Well, one thing's for sure. The composition of the Assemblée Nationale will be very different, next time it convenes.

 

[Vergennes]

Jean-Michel Fauvergue,chief of the RAID Police special unit from 2013 to 2017,who notably coordinated the assaults against the terrorists that recently struck France,has been elected with 67% as MP of the 8th constituency of Seine-et-Marne under the colors of LREM.

I am sure he will be a great asset,especially when it will come to questions of security.

 

[LA se Karachi]

It looks like the National Front will win fewer seats than the French Communist Party, and finish with a single digit total. Wow, quite a defeat for them. Even bigger than in the Presidential election.

Good to see both of these parties failing to get more than 20 seats combined.

 

[Vergennes]

LREM : 308
MoDem : 42
LR : 113
UDI : 18
Miscellaneous right : 6
FN : 8
Extreme right : 1
Regionalists : 5

Socialist Party : 29
French Communist Party : 10
Unbowed France : 17
Radical Party of the Left : 3
Greens : 1
Miscellaneous left : 12

Others : 4

It looks like the National Front will win fewer seats than the French Communist Party, and finish with a single digit total. Wow, quite a defeat for them. Even bigger than in the Presidential election.

Good to see both of these parties failing to get more than 20 seats combined.

With 308 seats,Macron and LREM can easily rule alone. (majority is 289 seats.)
The President can now count on 350 MPs (including the 42 of the MoDem) to conduct his reforms and get his laws voted. Not adding of course those from other parties who might support the President.

LREM won an absolute majority despite being only 1 year old,very impressive. (+308)
The MoDem,thanks to its alliance with the President is making a big comeback to the parliament with 42 MPs. (+41)

The Socialist Party,down from more than 280 seats to 29 seats is decimated and made even worse results than the disaster of 1993. In fact the entire parliamentary left is decimated,331 seats to 44.

The parliamentary right (LR,UDI,Miscellaneous right,PCD...) is down from 229 to 137 seats but still remain the 1st opposition force.

The Unbowed France of Jean-Luc Mélenchon with 17 seats can now create their own parliamentary group.

The French Communist Party won 10 seats,up from 7,they might have regained their strongholds they lost to the Socialist Party in 2012,nothing very surprising here.

The National Front still won 8 seats up from 2,but didn't successfully reach their target of 15 seats,which could have allowed them to create a parliamentary group. But the electoral system of this election never favoured them,especially when the two rounds election is held at a local level and not on a national level.

The FN is among the first asking for a fully proportional election system at a national level,obviously they would have won far more seats while the Communist Party for exemple would get probably none.

 

[Vergennes]

Socialist Party 2012 vs 2017. More than 280 constituencies to 29 today. Total obliteration. @Nilgiri @mike2000 is back @LA se Karachi @Philia