2009 European Parliament election in France

none May 2020 France 2004 2014 All 72 French seats in the European Parliament 40.63% 7 June 2009 UMP–NC–GM Xavier Bertrand 27.88 29 17 Socialist Party (France) Martine Aubry 16.48 14 31 Europe Ecology Daniel Cohn-Bendit 16.28 14 6 Democratic Movement (France) François Bayrou 8.46 6 New FG–AOM Marie-George Buffet 6.48 5 3 FN Jean-Marie Le Pen 6.34 3 7 Libertas France Jérôme Rivière 4.80 1 3thumb|right|French MEPs elected in 2004 European Parliament elections were held in France on Sunday 7 June 2009 to elect the 72 French Members of the European Parliament. Due to the entry of Romania and Bulgaria in the European Union in 2007, the number of seats allocated to France was revised from 78 to 72 seats, a loss of 6 seats. France now represents only 9.8% of all European MEPs compared to 12.5% in 2004 and 19.8% in 1979, following the first European election. The turnout in European elections in France has almost always declined, with the sole exception of an increase in 1994, falling from 60.7% turnout in the 1979 election to 43.1% in the latest election in 2004. Candidates for parliamentary parties + Top Candidates by Constituencyhttp://www.euractiv.fr/priorites-de-lue-elections/article/europeennes-j-100-tableau-bord-tetes-liste-001434 Européennes J-3 : le tableau de bord des têtes de listes | Institutions | L'Europe avec Euractiv.fr 7 March 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110719152703/http://www.euractiv.fr/priorites-de-lue-elections/article/europeennes-j-100-tableau-bord-tetes-liste-001434 19 July 2011 dead Region   UMP-NC-LGM PS MoDem Europe Ecology Left Front (PCF-PG-GU) FN MPF-CPNT PDF East Joseph Daul Catherine Trautmann Jean-François Kahn Sandrine Bélier Hélène Franco Bruno Gollnisch Christophe Beaudouin — Île-de-France Michel Barnier Harlem Désir Marielle de Sarnez Daniel Cohn-Bendit Patrick Le Hyaric Jean-Michel Dubois Jérôme Rivière — Massif central-Centre Jean-Pierre Audy Henri Weber Jean-Marie Beaupuy Jean-Paul Besset Marie-France Beaufils Patrick Bourson Véronique Goncalvès Jean Verdon North-West Dominique Riquet Gilles Pargneaux Corinne Lepage Hélène Flautre Jacky Hénin Marine Le Pen Frédéric Nihous Carl Lang Overseas Marie-Luce Penchard Ericka Bareigts Harry Durimel Alliance of the Overseas — Erika Kuttner-Perreau — South-East Françoise Grossetête Vincent Peillon Jean-Luc Bennahmias Michèle Rivasi Marie-Christine Vergiat Jean-Marie Le Pen Patrick Louis — South-West Dominique Baudis Kader Arif Robert Rochefort José Bové Jean-Luc Mélenchon Louis Aliot Eddie Puyjalon Jean-Claude Martinez West Christophe Béchu Bernadette Vergnaud Sylvie Goulard Yannick Jadot Jacques Généreux Brigitte Neveux Philippe de Villiers — Opinion polls Opinion polling for the 2009 European Parliament election in France File:Opinion polling for the European Parliament election, 2009 (France).png Results Nicolas Sarkozy's governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) won a pleasing result, the first time the presidential party had won since the first European elections in 1979. Compared to the party's disastrous 2004 result, it gained 12 seats and over 11% in the popular vote. However, many have said that the UMP is the only governing party in France, making its position very weak compared to the combined opposition. Led since the tumultuous Reims Congress by Martine Aubry, the main opposition party, the Socialists, won a very bad result: only 16.48% and suffering a loss of 17 seats. Prominent Socialist MEPs, including defeated leadership candidate Benoît Hamon, lost their seats. The Socialists lost most votes in middle-class urban areas, while holding their ground better in their rural strongholds. The Europe Ecology was the surprise of these elections, with a remarkable 16.28% and the same number of MEPs as the Socialist Party. The green coalition's result was the best result ever for any French Green party, beating out the previous record set by Antoine Waechter in the 1989 European elections – 10.59%. The gains made by the Greens also came from the centrist MoDem led by François Bayrou. The MoDem won only 8.45%, a surprisingly low result for the centrist party, thought to be France's third party. The far-right FN suffered loses, being reduced to only 3 MEPs. The conservative nationalist Libertas coalition formed around Philippe de Villiers's Movement for France, but also including the smaller agrarian Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition, suffered losses compared to the two parties' combined 8% showing in 2004. De Villiers was re-elected, becoming the only Libertas.eu MEP elected in the European Union. On the left of the PS, the new Left Front formed around the French Communist Party and the smaller Left Party surpassed Olivier Besancenot's New Anticapitalist Party. The Left Front and an ally overseas won 6.47% and 5 seats, while Besancenot's NPA won only 4.88% and no seats (despite polling better on aggregate than Libertas, which did win a seat). Won +/– Post-Lisbon +/– UMP–NC–GM 4799908 29 +12 30 +1 Socialist Party 2838160 14 –17 14 0 Europe Ecology 2803759 14 +8 15 +1 Democratic Movement 1455841 6 New 6 0 Left Front–Alliance of the Overseas 1115021 5 +2 5 0 National Front 1091691 3 –4 3 0 New Anticapitalist Party 840833 0 New 0 0 Libertas France (MPF–CPNT) 826357 1 –2 1 0 Independent Ecological Alliance 625375 0 0 0 0 Debout la République 304585 0 New 0 0 Lutte Ouvrière 205975 0 0 0 0 Party of France–House of Life and Freedoms 87053 0 New 0 0 Anti-Zionist Party 36374 0 New 0 0 Breton Party 32805 0 New 0 0 Europe–Democracy–Esperanto 28945 0 0 0 0 Earth Otherwise Nothing 28768 0 0 0 0 Liberal Alternative 16944 0 New 0 0 Resistors 14521 0 New 0 0 National Centre of Independents and Peasants 12750 0 New 0 0 Solidarity–AMEN Stop the Massacre of Unborn Children 8656 0 New 0 0 For a More Fraternal France and Europe 6529 0 New 0 0 Europe – Degrowth 5859 0 New 0 0 For the Basque Country 5771 0 New 0 0 Basque Nationalist Party 4201 0 New 0 0 Cannabis Without Borders 4015 0 New 0 0 Alliance Royale 3994 0 0 0 0 Communists 3208 0 New 0 0 People's Union 2748 0 New 0 0 Newropeans 2323 0 New 0 0 Citizenship European Culture 1758 0 New 0 0 Rally for the Citizen's Initiative 1401 0 New 0 0 Europe of Gibraltar to Jerusalem 1197 0 New 0 0 Humanist Party 999 0 0 0 0 Stop 266 0 New 0 0 Program against Precariousness and Sexism 24 0 New 0 0 773547 44282823 –6 +2 France Politique References External links Bureau d’Information pour la France du Parlement européen: Élections européennes 7 Juin 2009 France Category:European Parliament elections in France Europea European Parliament election