Current Membership
See also: 14th Legislature (France)The last legislative elections, held in June 2012 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
| Parties and coalitions | First round | Second round | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Seats | % | Swing | ||||
| Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) | PS | 7,617,996 | 29.35% | 22 | 9,420,426 | 40.91% | 258 | 280 | 48.53% | 94 | ||
| Miscellaneous Left (Divers gauche) | DVG | 881,339 | 3.40% | 1 | 709,409 | 3.11% | 21 | 22 | 3.81% | 7 | ||
| Europe Ecology – The Greens (Europe Écologie – Les Verts) | EELV | 1,418,141 | 5.46% | 1 | 828,916 | 3.60% | 16 | 17 | 2.95% | 13 | ||
| Radical Party of the Left (Parti radical de gauche) | PRG | 429,059 | 1.65% | 1 | 538,324 | 2.34% | 11 | 12 | 2.08% | 5 | ||
| Presidential majority (Left) | 10,346,535 | 39.86% | 25 | 11,497,075 | 49.93% | 306 | 331 | 57.70% | 119 | |||
| Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire) | UMP | 7,037,471 | 27.12% | 9 | 8,740,625 | 37.95% | 185 | 194 | 33.62% | 119 | ||
| Miscellaneous right (Divers droite) | DVD | 910,392 | 3.51% | 1 | 418,135 | 1.82% | 14 | 15 | 2.60% | 6 | ||
| New Centre (Nouveau Centre) | NC | 569,890 | 2.20% | 1 | 568,288 | 2.47% | 11 | 12 | 2.08% | 10 | ||
| Radical Party (Parti radical) | PRV | 321,054 | 1.24% | 0 | 311,211 | 1.35% | 6 | 6 | 1.04% | 12 | ||
| Centrist Alliance (Alliance centriste) | AC | 156,026 | 0.60% | 0 | 123,352 | 0.54% | 2 | 2 | 0.35% | 2 | ||
| Total Parliamentary Right | 8,994,833 | 34.67% | 11 | 10,161,611 | 44.13% | 218 | 229 | 39.69% | 116 | |||
| Left Front (Front de gauche) | FDG | 1,792,923 | 6.91% | 0 | 249,525 | 1.08% | 10 | 10 | 1.73% | 8 | ||
| National Front (Front national) | FN | 3,528,373 | 13.60% | 0 | 842,684 | 3.66% | 2 | 2 | 0.35% | 2 | ||
| Regionalists and separatists | REG | 145,825 | 0.56% | 0 | 135,534 | 0.59% | 2 | 2 | 0.35% | 2 | ||
| Centre for France (Le Centre pour la France) | MoDem | 458,046 | 1.76% | 0 | 113,196 | 0.49% | 2 | 2 | 0.35% | 1 | ||
| Other far-right | ExD | 49,501 | 0.19% | 0 | 29,738 | 0.13% | 1 | 1 | 0.17% | 1 | ||
| Other far-left | ExG | 253,580 | 0.98% | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0.00% | |||
| Other ecologists | ECO | 249,205 | 0.96% | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0.00% | |||
| Others (Autres) | AUT | 133,729 | 0.52% | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0.00% | |||
| Total | 25,952,550 | 100% | 36 | 23,029,183 | 100% | 541 | 577 | 100% | ||||
| Valid votes | 25,952,550 | 98.40% | 23,029,183 | 96.12% | ||||||||
| Spoilt and null votes | 420,749 | 1.60% | 928,411 | 3.88% | ||||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 26,373,299 | 57.23% | 23,957,594 | 55.41% | ||||||||
| Abstentions | 19,709,961 | 42.77% | 19,276,406 | 44.59% | ||||||||
| Registered voters | 46,083,260 | 43,234,000 | ||||||||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||||||||
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