1968 French legislative election

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All 487 seats to the French National Assembly
244 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout| 80.0% ( 0.9 pp) (1st round)
77.8% ( 2.2 pp) (2nd round)
|  | Majority party  | Minority party

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Leader  | Georges Pompidou | François Mitterrand
Party  | UDR | FGDS
Leader's seat  | Cantal-2nd | Nièvre-3rd
Last election  | 243 seats  | 117 seats
Seats won  | 354* | 57
Seat change  |  111  |  60
Popular vote  | 9,667,532 (1st round)
6,762,170 (2nd round) | 3,660,250 (1st round)
3,097,338 (2nd round)
Percentage  | 43.65% (1st round)
46.39% (2nd round) | 16.53% (1st round)
21.25% (2nd round)

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| Third party  | Fourth party

Leader  | Waldeck Rochet | Camille Laurens (NCIP),
Jean Lecanuet (CD, above)
Party  | PCF | Progress and Modern Democracy
Leader's seat  | Seine-Saint-Denis | Seine-Maritime (Lecanuet, as Senator)
Last election  | 73 seats  | 41 seats (CD)
Seats won  | 34  | 33
Seat change  |  39  |  11
Popular vote  | 4,434,832 (1st round)
2,935,775 (2nd round)  | 2,289,849 (1st round)
1,141,305 (2nd round)
Percentage  | 20.02% (1st round)
20.14% (2nd round)  | 10.34% (1st round)
7.83% (2nd round)

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* Including Independent Republicans.

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| PM before election

Georges Pompidou
UDR

| Elected PM

Maurice Couve de Murville
UDR

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Early legislative elections were held in France on 23 and 30 June 1968,[1] to elect the fourth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They were held in the aftermath of the a general strike in May 1968. On 30 May 1968, in a radio speech, President Charles de Gaulle, who had been out of the public eye for three days (he was in Baden-Baden, Germany), announced the dissolution of the National Assembly and called legislative elections to restore order.

While the workers returned to their jobs, Prime Minister Georges Pompidou campaigned for the "defence of the Republic" in the face of the "communist threat" and called for the "silent majority" to make themselves heard. The Left was divided. The Communists reproached the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left (FGDS) leader François Mitterrand for not having consulted it before he announced his candidacy in the next presidential election, and for the formation of a provisional government led by Pierre Mendès-France. The Far-Left and the Unified Socialist Party protested against the passivity of the left-wing parties. The Gaullist Union for the Defence of the Republic became the first party in the French Republic's history to obtain an absolute parliamentary majority. The FGDS disintegrated.

However, the relation between the two heads of the executive power had deteriorated during the crisis. One month later, Georges Pompidou resigned and was replaced by Maurice Couve de Murville.

## Results

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Party| First round| Second round| Total
seats

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Votes| %| Votes| %
| Union for the Defence of the Republic–Independent Republicans| 9,667,532| 43.65| 6,762,170| 46.39| 359
| French Communist Party| 4,434,832| 20.02| 2,935,775| 20.14| 34
| Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left| 3,660,250| 16.53| 3,097,338| 21.25| 57
| Progress and Modern Democracy| 2,289,489| 10.34| 1,141,305| 7.83| 28
| Miscellaneous right| 917,758| 4.14| 496,463| 3.41| 9
| Unified Socialist Party and far-left| 873,581| 3.94| 83,777| 0.57| 0
| Miscellaneous left| 163,482| 0.74| 60,584| 0.42| 0
| Technique and Democracy| 77,360| 0.35| | 0
| Movement for Reform| 33,835| 0.15| | 0
| Far-right| 28,736| 0.13| | 0
Total| 22,146,855| 100.00| 14,577,412| 100.00| 487
Valid votes| 22,146,855| 98.29| 14,577,412| 97.22
Invalid/blank votes| 385,192| 1.71| 416,762| 2.78
Total votes| 22,532,047| 100.00| 14,994,174| 100.00
Registered voters/turnout| 28,181,848| 79.95| 19,266,974| 77.82
Source: Quid, IPU

### Parliamentary groups in the National Assembly

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292

Party| Seats
| Union for the Defence of the Republic Group| 292
| Independent Republicans Group| 61
| Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left Group| 57
| French Communist Party Group| 34
| Progress and Modern Democracy Group| 33
| Non-Inscrits| 10
Total| 487
Source: IPU

## References

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1. ^ "France" (PDF). Inter-Parliamentary Union.

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