France (European Parliament constituency)

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France
European Parliament constituency
Shown within European Union
Created 1979
Dissolved 2004
MEP(s) 87 (1999)
Source(s) [1]

In European elections, France was a constituency of the European Parliament. It was replaced by subdivided constituencies in 2004. The boundaries of this constituency were the same as the member state of France. Its MEPs can be found in MEPs representing the French constituencies before 2004

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[edit] Results

[edit] 1979

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Summary of the 1979 European Parliament election results in France
Parties and coalitions Top Candidate % Seats
Union for French Democracy (Union pour la démocratie Française) Simone Veil 27.61 25
Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) / Movement of Left Radicals (Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche) François Mitterand 23.53 22
French Communist Party (Parti communiste français) Georges Marchais 20.52 19
Rally for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République) Jacques Chirac 16.31 15
Movement of Political Ecology (Mouvement d'écologie politique-Écologistes) Solange Fernex 4.39 0
Others 7.68 0
Total 100 81
Abstention: 38.3% (1st round)

[edit] 1984

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Summary of the 1984 European Parliament election results in France
Parties and coalitions Top Candidate % Seats
Union for French Democracy (Union pour la démocratie Française) - Rally for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République) Simone Veil 43.02 41
Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) Lionel Jospin 20.75 20
French Communist Party (Parti communiste français) Georges Marchais 11.20 10
National Front (Front National) Jean-Marie Le Pen 10.95 10
The Greens (Les Verts) Didier Anger 3.36 0
Others 10.67 0
Total 100 81
Abstention: 43.3% (1st round)

[edit] 1989

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Summary of the June 15, 1989 European Parliament election results in France
List Top Candidate % Seats
Union for French Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie Française) / Rally for the Republic(Rassemblement pour la République) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 28.88 26
Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) Laurent Fabius 23.61 22
National Front (Front National) Jean-Marie Le Pen 11.73 10
The Greens (Les Verts) Antoine Waechter 10.59 9
Union for French Democracy dissidents (Union pour la Démocratie Française) Simone Veil 8.43 7
French Communist Party (Parti communiste français) Philippe Herzog 7.72 7
Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions (Chasse, pêche, nature et traditions) André Goustat 4.13 0
Others 4.91 0
Total 100 81
Abstention: 51.2% (1st round)

[edit] 1994

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Summary of the 12 June 1994 European Parliament election results in France
Parties and coalitions Top Candidate % Seats +/-
Union for French Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie Française) / Rally for the Republic(Rassemblement pour la République) Dominique Baudis 25.7 28 +2
Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste) Michel Rocard 14.5 15 -7
Union for French Democracy dissidents (Union pour la démocratie française) Philippe de Villiers 12.3 13 +6
Movement of Left Radicals (Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche) Bernard Tapie 12.0 13 +13
National Front (Front national) Jean-Marie Le Pen 10.5 11 +1
French Communist Party (Parti communiste français) Francis Wurtz 6.9 7 =
Others 18.1 0 -9
Total 100 87 +6
Abstention: 46.5%

[edit] 1999

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Summary of the 13 June 1999 European Parliament election results in France
Parties and coalitions Top Candidate % Seats
Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) François Hollande 21.95 22
Rally for France (Rassemblement pour la France) Charles Pasqua 13.05 13
Rally for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République) Nicolas Sarkozy 12.82 12
The Greens (Les Verts) Daniel Cohn-Bendit 9.72 9
Union for French Democracy (Union pour la démocratie Française) François Bayrou 9.28 9
French Communist Party (Parti communiste français) Robert Hue 6.78 6
Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions (Chasse, pêche, nature, traditions) Jean Saint-Josse 6.77 6
National Front (Front national) Jean-Marie Le Pen 5.69 5
Workers' Struggle (Lutte ouvrière) / Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue communiste révolutionnaire) Arlette Laguiller 5.18 5
National Republican Movement (Mouvement national républicain) Bruno Mégret 3.28 0
Others 5.48 0
Total 100 87
Abstention: 53.00% (1st round)

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