1984 European Parliament election in France

none October 2020 France 1979 1989 All 81 French seats in the European Parliament 17 June 1984 Simone Veil UDF–RPR 40 41 43.03 Socialist Party (France) Lionel Jospin 20 20 20.76 French Communist Party Georges Marchais 19 10 11.21 FN Jean-Marie Le Pen new 10 10.95 European Parliament elections were held in France on 17 June 1984. Four parties were able to win seats: an alliance of the centre right Union for French Democracy and the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the Socialist Party and the French Communist Party, and the Front National. 56.7% of the French population turned out on election day. The result was the first time the far-right Front National obtained important results – this time 10.8% and close to the declining French Communist Party. Jonah Birch argues in Jacobin that the FN's rise in popularity was caused by the Socialists abandoning their Keynesian platform the previous year and instead pursuing policies of austerity.https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/francois-mitterrand-socialist-party-common-program-communist-pcf-1981-elections-austerity/ The Many Lives of François Mitterrand Birch Jonah 19 August 2015 Jacobin 2017-03-22 Results Union for French Democracy–Rally for the Republic 8683596 41 +1 Socialist Party 4188875 20 –2 French Communist Party 2261312 10 –9 National Front 2210334 10 New The Greens 680080 0 0 MRG–Ecologists–UCR Radical Centrist Union 670474 0 –2 Lutte Ouvrière 417702 0 0 Succeed in Europe 382404 0 New Internationalist Communist Party 182320 0 New PSU–CDU Communist Democrats and Unitarians 146238 0 0 Union of Independent Workers for Freedom of Enterprise 138220 0 New Initiative 84 123642 0 New For a United States of Europe 78234 0 New European Workers' Party 17503 0 New 0 737838 36880688 France Politique References France Category:European Parliament elections in France Europe