Template:French legislative elections, 1956
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| Parties and coalitions | Abbr. | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Section of the Workers International
(Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière) |
SFIO | 3 247 431 | 15.1 | 94 | |
| Radical Party (Parti radical)/
Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance) |
PR/UDSR | 2 389 163 | 11.3 | 77 | |
| National Center of Social Republicans
(Centre national des républicains sociaux) |
CNRS | 585 764 | 2.7 | 21 | |
| Total "Republican Front" | 6 222 358 | 28.9 | 192 | ||
| French Communist Party
(Parti communiste français) |
PCF | 5 514 403 | 25.6 | 150 | |
| National Center of Independents and Peasants
(Centre national des indépendants et paysans) |
CNIP | 3 259 782 | 15.2 | 95 | |
| Union and French Fraternity
(Union et fraternité française) |
UFF | 2 483 813 | 11.6 | 52 | |
| Popular Republican Movement
(Mouvement républicain populaire) |
MRP | 2 366 321 | 11.0 | 83 | |
| Miscellaneous | 993 773 | 4.6 | 9 | ||
| Rally of the Republican Lefts
(Rassemblement des gauches républicaines) |
RGR | 660 340 | 3.1 | 14 | |
| Total | 21 500 790 | 100 | 595 | ||
| Abstention: 17.2% | |||||
