France Legislative Elections: How does it work?

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Elections that are being abandoned by French people- but are essential for the government of the country.

Legislative elections in France are not organized at a national level like the presidentials- but by constituency.

There are 577 in France, who each send an MP to the National Assembly.

The voting system is uninominal and based on majority- candidates must win more than 50% to pass the first round.

If not, a second round is organised with candidates having obtained a suffrage of at least equal to 12.5 percent of registered voters.

This system favours the big parties, to the detriment of smaller ones who would prefer a proportional electoral system.

Despite being more representative of the electorate, proportional voting brought about political instability in the 4th Republic.

It ended up disappearing in constitutional reforms in 1962.

The objective of each party is to elect 289 MPs, an absolute majority at the National Assembly. It can then legislate without negotiating with any other bodies.

Since 2002, legislative abstention never stopped rising- it reached almost 45% in 2012.

However these elections directly determine who will govern over the next 5 years.

The new President’s party is only a year old and has no elected representatives for the moment.

Meanwhile, the National Front has only 2 MPs in the Assembly.

As for the traditional parties of left and right, they are more divided than ever since the presidential election…

[germanshepherd]

Some time later and REM is now majority party in NA, with players taken from both sides of the aisle. Crazy but awesome how he paradigm can shift. While I disagree with many, I’m glad to see that a third party can win the majority even if it’s only the first time. Gives hope to alternatives, even if some of them are stupid (FN and le Pen, looking at you lol)

[mujinarokko]

To transform from multi-party election system to single party consensus assembly, organize bottom up groups from neighbors to districts up to each constituency with effective government in mind. If outcome of the election can create useful government, the rest will follow. This election seems a good chance for the starter because Macron's party needs support from outside of the traditional political parties.

[Jose]

With just 33% percent of the vote, the REM won 306 of 577 seats. That's unfair.

[BoSuuTapCuaBe]

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