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{{Infobox legislative election {{Infobox legislative election
| country = France | country = France
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| seats_for_election = All 577 seats in the ] | seats_for_election = All 577 seats in the ]
| majority_seats = 289 | majority_seats = 289
| election_date = 5 June 1988 (first round)<br>12 June 1988 (second round) | election_date = 5June 1988 (first round)<br>12 June 1988 (second round)
| turnout = 65.74% (first round)<br>69.89% (second round) | turnout = 65.7% (1st round)<br> 69.9% (2nd round)
<!-- Socialist Party -->

| party1 = Socialist Party (France) | party1 = Socialist Party (France)
| leader1 = ] | leader1 = ]
| last_election1 = 206 | last_election1 = 206
| seats1 = 262 | seats1 = 260
| percentage1 = 34.76 | percentage1 = 34.77
<!--Rally for the Republic -->

| party2 = Rally for the Republic | party2 = Rally for the Republic
| leader2 = ] | leader2 = ]
| last_election2 = 149 | last_election2 = 149
| seats2 = 128 | seats2 = 126
| percentage2 = 19.18 | percentage2 = 19.19
<!--Union for French Democracy -->

| party3 = Union for French Democracy | party3 = Union for French Democracy
| leader3 = ] | leader3 = ]
| last_election3 = 127 | last_election3 = 127
| seats3 = 130 | seats3 = 129
| percentage3 = 18.50 | percentage3 = 18.50
<!--French Communist Party -->

| party4 = French Communist Party | party4 = French Communist Party
| leader4 = ] | leader4 = ]
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| seats4 = 27 | seats4 = 27
| percentage4 = 11.32 | percentage4 = 11.32
<!--National Front -->

| party5 = National Front (France) | party5 = National Front (France)
| leader5 = ] | leader5 = ]
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| seats5 = 1 | seats5 = 1
| percentage5 = 9.66 | percentage5 = 9.66

| party6 = Miscellaneous right
| leader6 = –
| last_election6 = 14
| seats6 = 12
| percentage6 = 2.85

| party7 = Miscellaneous left
| leader7 = –
| last_election7 = 5
| seats7 = 6
| percentage7 = 1.65

| party8 = ]
| leader8 = ]
| last_election8 = 2
| seats8 = 9
| percentage8 = 1.14


| title = ] | title = ]
| before_election = ] | before_election = ]
| before_party = Rally for the Republic | before_party = ]
| after_election = ] | after_election = ]
| after_party = Socialist Party (France) | after_party = Socialist Party (France)

| map = France 1988.svg | map = France 1988.svg
| map_caption = Results by constituency | map_caption = Map showing the results of the second round
}} }}
Legislative elections were held in France on 5 and 12 June 1988, to elect the ninth ] of the ], one month after the re-election of ] as ].

Legislative elections were held in France on 5 and 12 June 1988,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/FRANCE_1988_E.PDF|title=France|website=Inter-Parliamentary Union}}</ref> to elect the ninth ] of the ], one month after the re-election of ] as ].


In 1986, the ] (PS) of President Mitterrand lost the ]. For the first time under the ], the President was forced to "cohabit" with a hostile parliamentary majority and cabinet. He chose the ] leader ] as Prime Minister. The two heads of the executive power were rivals for the ]. In 1986, the ] (PS) of President Mitterrand lost the ]. For the first time under the ], the President was forced to "cohabit" with a hostile parliamentary majority and cabinet. He chose the ] leader ] as Prime Minister. The two heads of the executive power were rivals for the ].
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== Results == == Results ==
]
{{Election results
{{election table|title=}}
|party1=]|votes1=8493702|seats1=37|votes1_2=9198778|seats1_2=225|totseats1=262|sc1=
|-
|party2=]|votes2=4687047|seats2=38|votes2_2=4688493|seats2_2=90|totseats2=128|sc2=
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" rowspan=2 colspan=3 width=600 |Parties and coalitions
|party3=]|votes3=4519459|seats3=38|votes3_2=4299370|seats3_2=92|totseats3=130|sc3=
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=2 |1st round
|party4=]|votes4=2765761|seats4=1|votes4_2=695569|seats4_2=26|totseats4=27|sc4=
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=2 |2nd round
|party5=]|votes5=2359528|seats5=0|votes5_2=216704|seats5_2=1|totseats5=1|sc5=
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" rowspan=2|Total seats
|party6=]|votes6=697272|seats6=3|votes6_2=522970|seats6_2=9|totseats6=12|sc6=
|-
|party7=]|votes7=403690|seats7=1|votes7_2=421587|seats7_2=5|totseats7=6|sc7=
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
|party8=]|votes8=279316|seats8=2|votes8_2=260104|seats8_2=7|totseats8=9|sc8=
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|party9=Far-left|votes9=89065|seats9=0|votes9_2=|seats9_2=|totseats9=0|sc9=
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes
|party10=Ecologists|votes10=86312|seats10=0|votes10_2=|seats10_2=|totseats10=0|sc10=
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%
|party11=Far-right|votes11=32445|seats11=0|votes11_2=|seats11_2=|totseats11=0|sc11=
|-
|party12=Regionalists|votes12=18498|seats12=0|votes12_2=|seats12_2=|totseats12=0|sc12=
| style="background-color:#E75480;" |
|row13=French Polynesian seats|totseats13=2|sc13=
| style="text-align:left;" | ] (''Parti socialiste'')
|invalid=512697|invalid2=695106
| style="text-align:right;" | PS
|electorate=37945582|electorate2=30045772
| style="text-align:right;" | 8,493,702
|source=
| style="text-align:right;" | 34.77
| style="text-align:right;" | 9,198,778
| style="text-align:right;" | 45.31
| style="text-align:right;" | 260
|-
| style="background-color:#FF0000;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | ] (''Parti communiste français'')
| style="text-align:right;" | PCF
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,765,761
| style="text-align:right;" | 11.32
| style="text-align:right;" | 695,569
| style="text-align:right;" | 3.43
| style="text-align:right;" | 27
|-
| style="background-color:#DA7B8B;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | ]
| style="text-align:right;" | DVG
| style="text-align:right;" | 403,690
| style="text-align:right;" | 1.65
| style="text-align:right;" | 421,587
| style="text-align:right;" | 2.08
| style="text-align:right;" | 7
|-
| style="background-color:#FFBF00;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | ] (''Mouvement des radicaux de gauche'')
| style="text-align:right;" | MRG
| style="text-align:right;" | 272,316
| style="text-align:right;" | 1.11
| style="text-align:right;" | 260,104
| style="text-align:right;" | 1.28
| style="text-align:right;" | 9
|- style="background-color:pink"
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| '''Total Left ("Presidential Majority" and PCF)'''
|
| style="text-align:right;" | '''11,935,469'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''48.85'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''10,576,038'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''52.10'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''303'''
|-
| style="background-color:#0000C8;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | ] (''Rassemblement pour la République'')
| style="text-align:right;" | RPR
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,687,047
| style="text-align:right;" | 19.19
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,688,493
| style="text-align:right;" | 23.09
| style="text-align:right;" | 126
|-
| style="background-color:#00CCCC;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | ] (''Union pour la démocratie française'')
| style="text-align:right;" | UDF
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,519,459
| style="text-align:right;" | 18.50
| style="text-align:right;" | 4,299,370
| style="text-align:right;" | 21.18
| style="text-align:right;" | 129
|-
| style="background-color:#4C4CB0;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | ]
| style="text-align:right;" | DVD
| style="text-align:right;" | 697,272
| style="text-align:right;" | 2.85
| style="text-align:right;" | 522,970
| style="text-align:right;" | 2.58
| style="text-align:right;" | 16
|- style="background-color:lightblue"
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|'''Total "]" (Right)'''
|
| style="text-align:right;" | '''9,903,778'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''40.54'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''9,510,833'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''46.85'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''271'''
|-
| style="background-color:#0D378A;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | ] (''Front national'')
| style="text-align:right;" | FN
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,359,528
| style="text-align:right;" | 9.66
| style="text-align:right;" | 216,704
| style="text-align:right;" | 1.07
| style="text-align:right;" | 1
|-
| style="background-color:#C41E3A;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Far-left
| style="text-align:right;" | EXG
| style="text-align:right;" | 89,065
| style="text-align:right;" | 0.36
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | -
|-
| style="background-color:#77ff77;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Ecologists
| style="text-align:right;" | ECO
| style="text-align:right;" | 86,312
| style="text-align:right;" | 0.35
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | -
|-
| style="background-color:#80461B;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | ]
| style="text-align:right;" | EXD
| style="text-align:right;" | 32,445
| style="text-align:right;" | 0.13
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | -
|-
| style="background-color:#dddd00;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Regionalists
|
| style="text-align:right;" | 18,498
| style="text-align:right;" | 0.08
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | -
| style="text-align:right;" | -
|-
|
| style="text-align:left;" | '''Total'''
|
| style="text-align:right;" | '''24,425,095'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''100.00'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''20,303,575'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''100.00'''
| style="text-align:right;" | '''575'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=6 | Abstention: 34.26% (1st round) 30.11% (2nd round). Note: Two seats vacant after the invalidation of two elections in the ] ].
|}

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|title=Popular vote (first round)
|titlebar=#ddd
|width=600px
|barwidth=350px
|bars=
{{Bar percent|PS|{{party color|Socialist Party (France)}}|34.77}}
{{Bar percent|RPR|{{party color|Rally for the Republic}}|19.19}}
{{Bar percent|UDF|{{party color|Union for French Democracy (alliance)}}|18.50}}
{{Bar percent|PCF|{{party color|French Communist Party}}|11.32}}
{{Bar percent|FN|{{party color|National Front (France)}}|9.66}}
{{Bar percent|DVD|{{party color|Miscellaneous right}}|2.85}}
{{Bar percent|DVG|{{party color|Miscellaneous left}}|1.65}}
{{Bar percent|MRG|{{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}|1.11}}
{{bar percent|Others|gray|0.93}}
}}
{{Bar box
|title=Popular vote (second round)
|titlebar=#ddd
|width=600px
|barwidth=350px
|bars=
{{Bar percent|PS|{{party color|Socialist Party (France)}}|45.31}}
{{Bar percent|RPR|{{party color|Rally for the Republic}}|23.09}}
{{Bar percent|UDF|{{party color|Union for French Democracy (alliance)}}|21.18}}
{{Bar percent|PCF|{{party color|French Communist Party}}|3.43}}
{{Bar percent|DVD|{{party color|Miscellaneous right}}|2.58}}
{{Bar percent|DVG|{{party color|Miscellaneous left}}|2.08}}
{{Bar percent|MRG|{{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}|1.28}}
{{Bar percent|FN|{{party color|National Front (France)}}|1.07}}
}}
{{Bar box
|title=Seats won
|titlebar=#ddd
|width=600px
|barwidth=350px
|bars=
{{Bar percent|PS|{{party color|Socialist Party (France)}}|45.22}}
{{Bar percent|UDF|{{party color|Union for French Democracy (alliance)}}|22.43}}
{{Bar percent|RPR|{{party color|Rally for the Republic}}|21.91}}
{{Bar percent|PCF|{{party color|French Communist Party}}|4.70}}
{{Bar percent|DVD|{{party color|Miscellaneous right}}|2.78}}
{{Bar percent|MRG|{{party color|Radical Party of the Left}}|1.56}}
{{Bar percent|DVG|{{party color|Miscellaneous left}}|1.22}}
{{Bar percent|FN|{{party color|National Front (France)}}|0.17}}
}} }}


=== {{ordinal|9}} Assembly by Parliamentary Group ===
===Parliamentary groups in the National Assembly===
A Communist group (24 members + 1 caucusing) was created on 15 July 1988 following the lowering of the threshold to form a group from 30 to 20.


{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%"
{{Election results
|-
|party1=] Group|seats1=275
!colspan=2|Group
|party2=] Group|seats2=130
!Members
|party3=] Group|seats3=90
!Caucusing
|party4=''Union du Centre'' Group|seats4=40|color4=#1E90FF
!Total
|party5=] Group|seats5=25
|-
|party6=Non-Inscrits|seats6=17
|bgcolor="#E75480"|&nbsp;
|source=
|] Group
}}
| 258
| 17
| 275
|-
|bgcolor="#0000C8"|&nbsp;
|] Group
| 127
| 3
| 130
|-
|bgcolor="#00CCCC"|&nbsp;
|] Group
| 81
| 9
| 90
|-
|bgcolor="#1E90FF"|&nbsp;
|''Union du Centre'' Group
| 34
| 7
| 41
|-
|bgcolor="gray"|&nbsp;
|Non-Inscrits
| 39
| 0
| 39
|-
|
|'''Total:'''
| '''557'''
| '''20'''
| '''577'''
|}


'''Notes:'''
==References==
* 2 vacant seats due to the cancellation of elections in the first and second constituencies of the ] ].
{{reflist}}
* A Communist group (24 members + 1 caucusing) was created on 15 July 1988 following the lowering of the threshold to form a group from 30 to 20.


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1988 French legislative election
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All 577 seats in the National Assembly
289 seats needed for a majority
Turnout65.7% (1st round)
69.9% (2nd round)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
PS Michel Rocard 34.77 260 +54
RPR Jacques Chirac 19.19 126 −23
UDF Jean Lecanuet 18.50 129 +2
PCF Georges Marchais 11.32 27 −8
FN Jean-Marie Le Pen 9.66 1 −34
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Map showing the results of the second round
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Jacques Chirac
Rally for the Republic
Michel Rocard
PS

Legislative elections were held in France on 5 and 12 June 1988, to elect the ninth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, one month after the re-election of François Mitterrand as President of France.

In 1986, the Socialist Party (PS) of President Mitterrand lost the legislative election. For the first time under the Fifth Republic, the President was forced to "cohabit" with a hostile parliamentary majority and cabinet. He chose the RPR leader Jacques Chirac as Prime Minister. The two heads of the executive power were rivals for the 1988 presidential election.

Inspired by the example of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Chirac campaigned on an aggressively right-wing set of policies (including privatizations, abolition of the solidarity tax on wealth and tightening restrictions on immigration) but he was faced with significant opposition in French society. For his part, Mitterrand presented himself as the protector of national unity. He campaigned for a "united France" and warned against "the appropriation of the state by a clan", targeting Chirac and the RPR. An alliance between the Socialists and the center-right UDF was evoked.

After Mitterrand's re-election, Chirac resigned. Some politicians and commentators suggested not dissolving the National Assembly and instead nominating a UDF Prime minister (Valéry Giscard d'Estaing or Simone Veil). President Mitterrand refused. The polls indicated a "pink surge" if new legislative elections were organized. However, he nominated the moderate Socialist Michel Rocard to lead the cabinet and declared that it was unhealthy for democracy if one party held all the power.

In spite of a very good result in the first round, the "Presidential Majority" (composed of the PS and the Left Radicals) obtained only a small parliamentary majority after the second round. The PS and its allies won 276 seats against 271 for the Republican right-wing coalition and 27 Communists. The re-establishment of the majoritarian two-ballot system resulted in the National Front, which had held 35 seats during the previous term, dropping to only one seat.

Some personalities from "civil society" and four UDF politicians participated in the government. They were supported by a minority of their party, which created a new parliamentary group: the Union of the Centre. The executive power relied on the "Presidential Majority" which widened towards the Union of the Centre or the French Communist Party depending on the policy being advocated by the government.

Results

Parties and coalitions 1st round 2nd round Total seats
Votes % Votes %
Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) PS 8,493,702 34.77 9,198,778 45.31 260
French Communist Party (Parti communiste français) PCF 2,765,761 11.32 695,569 3.43 27
Miscellaneous Left DVG 403,690 1.65 421,587 2.08 7
Movement of Left Radicals (Mouvement des radicaux de gauche) MRG 272,316 1.11 260,104 1.28 9
Total Left ("Presidential Majority" and PCF) 11,935,469 48.85 10,576,038 52.10 303
Rally for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République) RPR 4,687,047 19.19 4,688,493 23.09 126
Union for French Democracy (Union pour la démocratie française) UDF 4,519,459 18.50 4,299,370 21.18 129
Miscellaneous Right DVD 697,272 2.85 522,970 2.58 16
Total "Union of the Rally and the Center" (Right) 9,903,778 40.54 9,510,833 46.85 271
National Front (Front national) FN 2,359,528 9.66 216,704 1.07 1
Far-left EXG 89,065 0.36 - - -
Ecologists ECO 86,312 0.35 - - -
Far-right EXD 32,445 0.13 - - -
Regionalists 18,498 0.08 - - -
Total 24,425,095 100.00 20,303,575 100.00 575
Abstention: 34.26% (1st round) 30.11% (2nd round). Note: Two seats vacant after the invalidation of two elections in the Oise département.
Popular vote (first round)
PS 34.77%
RPR 19.19%
UDF 18.50%
PCF 11.32%
FN 9.66%
DVD 2.85%
DVG 1.65%
MRG 1.11%
Others 0.93%
Popular vote (second round)
PS 45.31%
RPR 23.09%
UDF 21.18%
PCF 3.43%
DVD 2.58%
DVG 2.08%
MRG 1.28%
FN 1.07%
Seats won
PS 45.22%
UDF 22.43%
RPR 21.91%
PCF 4.70%
DVD 2.78%
MRG 1.56%
DVG 1.22%
FN 0.17%

9th Assembly by Parliamentary Group

Group Members Caucusing Total
  Socialist Group 258 17 275
  RPR Group 127 3 130
  UDF Group 81 9 90
  Union du Centre Group 34 7 41
  Non-Inscrits 39 0 39
Total: 557 20 577

Notes:

  • 2 vacant seats due to the cancellation of elections in the first and second constituencies of the Oise department.
  • A Communist group (24 members + 1 caucusing) was created on 15 July 1988 following the lowering of the threshold to form a group from 30 to 20.
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