Registered voters: 41,518,036
Votes cast: 17,764,049 42.8
Invalid votes: 595,054 3.3
Valid votes: 17,168,995 96.7
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Party Votes % Change Seats
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Socialist Party (PS) 4,960,245 28.9 +7.0 31 +9
Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) 2,856,186 16.6 +3.8 17 +5
Union for French Democracy (UDF) 2,051,142 11.9 +2.6 11 +2
National Front (FN) 1,684,868 9.8 +4.1 7 +2
Movement for France (MPF) 1,304,843 7.6 -5.4 3 -10
Greens (Verts) 1,271,059 7.4 -2.3 6 -3
French Communist Party (PCF) 900,396 5.2 -1.6 2 -4
Others 2,140,246 12.5 1 -10
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Total 17,168,995 78 -9
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The elections were conducted in 7 regional mainland constituencies, plus an eighth consisting of all Overseas Departments and Overseas Territories. Allocation of seats was by proportional representation, with closed lists and no preferential voting, using the rule of the highest average, with a threshold of 5% of the votes in each constituency.
