French legislative election, 2017

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Legislative elections are scheduled to take place in June 2017 to elect the members of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic.

Background

2012

The previous French legislative election was held on 10 June 2012, with a second round of voting on 17 June. The election was held shortly after the election of the Socialist François Hollande as President of France in the presidential elections of 21–22 April and 5–6 May that year. The legislative elections granted the left-wing parties a majority in the National Assembly, with 341 (59%) of the 577 seats going to the left, against 229 (40%) for the parties supporting the then-incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy.^[1] Hollande was sworn in on 15 May,^[2] and subsequently formed a coalition cabinet consisting of the Socialists, the Radical Party of the Left, and The Greens. The cabinet was headed by Jean-Marc Ayrault.

Electoral system

The 577 members of the National Assembly are elected from single-member constituencies using the two-round system. Citizens may field their candidacies in a district, and participate in the first round. If a single candidate obtains over 50% of the vote, as well as a minimum of 25% of all registered voters. If no candidate meets these criteria, a second round is held in which the two most-voted candidates from the first round, plus any other candidate who obtained above 12.5%, are allowed to participate. Of the 577 constituencies, 556 are in Metropolitan France, ten are in overseas departments and 11 are for French citizens living abroad.^[3]

Opinion polls

Votes

Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling	FG	PS	PRG	DVG	EELV	MoDem	UDI	DVD	UMP/ LR	DLF	FN	Margin of Error	Sample Size	Lead
Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling												Margin of Error	Sample Size	Lead
CSA	December 2, 2014	8	18			7	12		24		1	23			1
Legislative Election	June 10, 2012	6.9	29.4	1.4	3.4	5.5	1.8	4.0	3.5	27.1	0.6	13.6			2.3

Seat projections

Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling	FG	PS	PRG	DVG	EELV	MoDem	UDI	DVD	UMP/ LR	DLF	FN
Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling
CSA	December 2, 2014	56/66					485/505				1/3	14/24
Legislative Election	June 10, 2012	10	280	12	22	17	2	20	15	194	2	2

References

Elections and referendums in France

Presidential	1848 1965 1969 1974 1981 1988 1995 2002 2007 2012 2017

Parliamentary	1791 1792 1795 1798 1815 1816 1817 1819 1820 1824 1827 1830 1831 1834 1837 1839 1842 1846 1848 1849 1852 1857 1863 1869 1871 1876 1877 1881 1885 1889 1893 1898 1902 1906 1910 1914 1919 1924 1928 1932 1936 1945 1946 (Jun) 1946 (Nov) 1951 1956 1958 1962 1967 1968 1973 1978 1981 1986 1988 1993 1997 2002 2007 2012 2017

Regional	1986 1992 1998 2004 2010 2015

Departemental	1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1976 1979 1982 1985 1988 1992 1994 1998 2001 2004 2008 2011 2015

Municipal	1959 1965 1971 1977 1983 1989 1995 2001 2008 2014

European	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Referendums	1793 1795 1800 1802 1804 1815 1851 1852 1870 1945 1946 (May) 1946 (Oct) 1958 1961 1962 (Jun) 1962 (Oct) 1969 1972 1988 1992 2000 2005

See also: Indirect presidential and Senate elections Elections in French Guiana French Polynesia Guadeloupe Martinique Mayotte New Caledonia Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Wallis and Futuna

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