1979 The
1979 European election was the first direct election to the European Parliament to be held and hence the first time France had voted.
1984 The
1984 European election was the second election to the European Parliament and the second for France.
1989 The
1989 European election was the third election to the European Parliament and the third for France.
1994 The
1994 European election was the fourth election to the European Parliament and the fourth for France.
1999 The
1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament and the fifth for France.
2019 are shown as outlined white circles: The
2019 European election was the ninth election to the European Parliament and the sixth for France as a nationwide constituency. Elections in
2004,
2009 and
2014 were contested in regional constituencies. The far-right
National Rally and
President Macron's centrist
LREM–
MoDem alliance each won 23 seats. The green group
The Ecologists won 13, the centre-right group of
The Republicans and
The Centrists won 8 seats and the far-left group () and the centre-left group (led by the
Socialist Party) each won 6 seats. The centre-right
Union of Democrats and Independents and the
French Communist Party each lost the 3 seats they had held in the previous parliament. As the 2019 election was after the
2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, but before
Brexit took effect at midnight CET on the morning of 1 February 2020, several French seats were only taken up after the British members left the European Parliament. These seats are included in the numbers mentioned above and were apportioned with 2 to the centrist LREM–MoDem group and 1 each for the National Rally, The Ecologists and the Socialists. These additional seats are shown as outlined circles in the hemisphere diagram in this section.
2024 The
2024 European election was the tenth election to the European Parliament and the seventh for France as a nationwide constituency. The far-right grouping, led by the
National Rally, won 30 of France's 81 seats, with 31.50% of the vote. The centrist group, led by President
Emmanuel Macron's
Renaissance, and the centre-left group, led by the
Socialist Party, each won 13 seats. The far-left, led by , won 9 seats; the
Gaullist centre-right, led by
The Republicans, won 6 seats and the greens (
The Ecologists) and another far-right group (
Éric Zemmour's ) won 5 seats each. About one hour after results for the European Parliament election showed that Renaissance would place a distant second to National Rally, Macron
dissolved the French National Assembly and called
snap legislative elections. ==References==