1997 French legislative election

none February 2022 1997 French legislative election France parliamentary no 1993 French legislative election 1993 2002 French legislative election 2002 All 577 seats in the French National Assembly 289 25 May and 1 June 1997 67.9% (2.0 pp) (1st round) 71.1% (2.2 pp) (2nd round) Jospin 1998 (cropped).jpg 130 130 150 0 0 Lionel Jospin Socialist Party (France) Haute-Garonne-7th 53 seats, 17.6% 255 202 5,961,612 (1 round) 9,751,423 (2 round) 23.53% (1 round) 38.05% (2 round) Alain Juppé, 25 July 2011 (5974934772) (cropped).jpg 130 130 150 0 0 Alain Juppé Rally for the Republic Gironde-2nd 242 seats, 20.4% 139 103 3,977,964 (1 round) 5,846,717 (2 round) 15.70% (1 round) 22.82% (2 round) Francés_Leotard.jpg 130 130 150 0 0 François Léotard Union for French Democracy Var-5th 207 seats, 19.1% 112 95 3,601,279 (1 round) 5,323,177 (2 round) 14.21% (1 round) 20.77% (2 round) Robert Hue 1997 (cropped).jpg 130 130 150 0 0 Robert Hue French Communist Party Val-d'Oise-5th 24 seats, 9.2% 35 9 2,519,281 (1 round) 982,990 (2 round) 9.94% (1 round) 3.84% (2 round) Meeting Voynet Mutualite 2006-04-05 n2 (cropped).jpg 130 130 150 0 0 Dominique Voynet The Greens (France) none 0 seats, 4.0% 7 7 1,726,018 (1 round) 414,871 (2 round) 6.81% (1 round) 1.62% (2 round) Jean-Marie Le Pen 1994 (cropped).jpg 130 130 150 0 0 Jean-Marie Le Pen National Front (France) 0 seats, 12.4% 1 1 3,785,383 (1 round) 1,434,854 (2 round) 14.94% (1 round) 5.60% (2 round) 350px First round results by constituency 350px Second round results by constituency 2 Prime Minister Alain Juppé Lionel Jospin Socialist Party (France) List of deputies of the 11th National Assembly of France outgoing members Legislative elections were held in France on 25 May and 1 June 1997 to elect the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic. It was the consequence of President Jacques Chirac's decision to call the legislative election one year before the deadline.http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2113_97.htm Elections held in 1993 Inter-Parliamentary Union In March 1993 the right won a large victory in the legislative election and a comfortable parliamentary majority. Two years later, the RPR leader Jacques Chirac was elected President of France promising to reduce the "social fracture". However, the programme of welfare reforms ("Plan Juppé") proposed by his Prime Minister Alain Juppé caused a social crisis in November and December 1995. The popularity of the executive duo decreased. In spring 1997 President Chirac tried to take the left-wing opposition by surprise by dissolving the National Assembly. The first opinion polls indicated a re-election of the right-wing majority. The "Plural Left" coalition, composed of the Socialists, the Communists, the Greens, the Citizens' Movement, and the Left Radicals, proposed a program of social reforms to reduce unemployment and legislation to limit the length of the work week to 35 hours. Prime Minister Juppé's unpopularity, as well as the unpopularity of his government's policies, contributed to the left's triumph. In the first round, the left-wing coalition obtained more votes than the incumbent parliamentary majority. After he was blamed for the situation, Juppé announced he would resign even if the right kept their majority in the runoff vote. For all that, the "Plural left" obtained the majority of the seats; however the Socialists needed its allies to form a majority. For the first time, the ecologists were represented in the Parliament. The participation of the National Front's candidates in the second round increased the defeat of the presidential majority. This was the first time since 1877 that a President of France lost a legislative election that he had called. The Socialist leader Lionel Jospin became Prime Minister of the third cohabitation. It finished with the 2002 French presidential election, which Jospin unexpectedly lost in the first round, causing his retirement from politics. Results File:1997 French Election.svg Socialist Party 5961612 9751423 255 Rally for the Republic 3977964 5846717 139 National Front 3785383 1434854 1 Union for French Democracy 3601279 5323177 112 French Communist Party 2519281 982990 35 The Greens 1726018 414871 7 Miscellaneous right 1671626 628468 2 Miscellaneous left 708605 652882 11 Far-left 638710 0 Radical-Socialist Party 366067 562031 12 Miscellaneous 351503 28916 3 Far-right 26438 0 1301456 1727669 39217241 38487205 National Assembly Parliamentary groups in the National Assembly GroupMembersCaucusingTotalSocialist Group2428250RPR Group1366140UDF Group1076113Communist Group34236 Radical, Citizen and Green33033 Non-Inscrits505Total55522577 See also List of deputies of the 11th National Assembly of France References Category:Legislative elections in France Legislative Legislative election Legislative election Category:1997 in French politics