1994 European Parliament election in France

none October 2021 France 1989 1999 All 87 French seats in the European Parliament 12 June 1994 Union for France UDF–RPR Dominique Baudis 26 28 25.58 Socialist Party (France) Michel Rocard 20 15 14.49 MAE Philippe de Villiers new 13 12.34 MRG Bernard Tapie 2 13 12.03 FN Jean-Marie Le Pen 10 11 10.52 French Communist Party Francis Wurtz 7 7 6.89 European Parliament elections were held in France on 12 June 1994. Six lists were able to win seats: an alliance of the centre-right Union for French Democracy (UDF) and the Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR), the Socialist Party (PS), the Left Radical Party (MRG), the French Communist Party, the National Front (FN) and Philippe de Villiers' eurosceptic right-wing dissident UDF list, which formed the Majority for Another Europe (MAE). 53.5% of the French population turned out on election day, an improvement on the last election in 1989. The Greens, who were weakened by an Ecology Generation list led by Brice Lalonde (winning 2.01%) and also suffering from internal divisions between the party's left (who wanted an electoral alliance with the Socialists and the left) and the right (rejecting all alliances), lost all 9 seats won in 1989. Arlette Laguiller's Trotskyst Workers' Struggle (2.27%), Jean-Pierre Chevènement's left-wing eurosceptic Citizens' Movement (2.54%), the L'Europe commence à Sarajevo List (1.57%) and the agrarian populist Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions (3.96%) were among the notable lists which did not pass the 5% threshold. With 14.49%, the Socialists, the party of President François Mitterrand, whose list was led by Michel Rocard suffered its worst result ever in a European election, losing votes mainly to the Radical list led by wealthy businessman and a protégé of Mitterrand, Bernard Tapie. Most analysts agreed that Mitterrand supported Tapie's list behind the scenes, since Rocard was a personal rival of Mitterrand and he wished to destroy Rocard's chances in the 1995 presidential election. In fact, Rocard resigned as First Secretary of the PS shortly thereafter and did not run in 1995 – Lionel Jospin was the Socialist candidate. The other surprise was Philippe de Villiers success. Villiers, the President of the General Council of Vendée, was a eurosceptic member of the liberal component (PR) of the pro-European UDF. He won a surprisingly strong 12.34%, and his thirteen MEPs formed the nucleus of the Europe of Nations group. However, his success did not lead him to immediate political successes – he polled barely 4% in the 1995 presidential election. Results Union for France 4985574 28 New Socialist Party 2824173 15 –5 Majority for Another Europe 2404105 13 New Movement of Radicals of the Left 2344457 13 +11 National Front 2050086 11 +1 French Communist Party 1342222 7 0 Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions 771061 0 0 The Greens 574806 0 –9 Citizens' Movement 494986 0 New Lutte Ouvrière 442723 0 0 Ecology Generation 392291 0 New Europe Begins at Sarajevo 305633 0 New Jobs First! 125340 0 New Natural Law Party 103261 0 New Workers' Party 84513 0 New Regionalist and Federalist List 76436 0 New Democrats for a United States of Europe 71814 0 New Life Policy for Europe 56658 0 New PPDG–PPM–PCR–PSG 37041 0 New Europe for All 290 0 New +6 1097510 39019797 France Politique Members elected UDF – RPR Dominique Baudis Hélène Carrère d'Encausse Yves Galland Christian Jacob Jean-Pierre Raffarin Armelle Guinebertiére Nicole Fontaine Alain Pompidou Yves Verwaerde Marie-Thérèse Hermange Jean-Louis Bourlanges Jacques Donnay Françoise Grossetête Blaise Aldo Robert Hersant Anne-Marie Schaffner Francis Decourrière Christian Cabrol Bernard Stasi Jean-Claude Pasty André Soulier Jean-Pierre Bazin Pierre Bernard-Reymond Raymond Chesa Georges de Brémond d'Ars Jean Baggioni Jean-Pierre Bebear Gérard d'Aboville PS Michel Rocard Catherine Trautmann Bernard Kouchner Danielle Darras André Laignel Nicole Pery Jack Lang Frédérique Bredin Pierre Moscovici Élisabeth Guigou Jean-Pierre Cot Pervenche Berès François Bernardini Michèle Lindeperg Gérard Caudron UDF dissidents Philippe de Villiers James Goldsmith Charles de Gaulle Thierry Jean-Pierre Philippe-Armand Martin Françoise Seillier Georges Berthu Hervé Fabre-Aubrespy Dominique Souchet Anne Christine Poisson Frédéric Striby Edouard Des Places Marie-France de Rose PRG Bernard Tapie Jean-François Hory Catherine Lalumière Christiane Taubira-Delannon Noël Mamère Michel Dary André Sainjon Bernard Castagnède Odile Leperre-Verrier Pierre Pradier Christine Barthet-Mayer Dominique Saint-Pierre Antoinette Fouque FN Jean-Marie Le Pen Bruno Mégret Bruno Gollnisch Jean-Claude Martinez Carl Lang Marie-France Stirbois Bernard Antony Yvan Blot Jean-Marie Le Chevallier Fernand Le Rachinel Jean-Yves Le Gallou PCF Francis Wurtz Sylviane Ainardi Philippe Herzog Gisèle Moreau René Piquet Mireille Elmalan Aline PaillerÉlections européennes 1994 References France Category:European Parliament elections in France Europe Category:June 1994 in France