Parliamentary election in France 1993
The parliamentary elections in France in 1993 took place on March 21 and 28, 1993. All members of the National Assembly , the lower house in the bicameral system of France, were elected . It was their tenth term since the beginning of the Fifth Republic.
68.91 percent of those eligible to vote took part in the first round, and 67.55 percent in the second. The election brought a landslide victory to the center-right RPR and UDF , which together held more than four-fifths of the seats in the National Assembly. Then came the second cohabitation : the socialist François Mitterrand remained president, but the neo-Gaullist Édouard Balladur led a conservative-liberal cabinet.
context
François Mitterrand (PS) had won the presidential election in 1988 after the 1981 presidential election. His second seven-year term ( Septennat ) lasted until 1995 . Three general elections had already taken place during his reign: in June 1981, March 1986 and June 1988. Since the beginning of the second term there had been three governments: one under Michel Rocard from 1988 to 1991, one under Édith Cresson until 1992 and one under Pierre Bérégovoy since March 1992.
Mitterrand had caused Cresson to resign after the left's weak election results in the cantonal and regional elections; Economy Minister Bérégovoy had become her successor. Bérégovoy had promised to fight corruption. At that time, numerous high officials of the Parti socialiste and other left parties were suspected of corruption, for example Henri Emmanuelli (President of the National Assembly from January 1992 to April 1993) and Bernard Tapie (twice minister in the Bérégovoy cabinet). Due to legal affairs, however, Bérégovoy soon came under fire. In addition, unemployment increased and an economic recession ensued.
The two main opposition parties, the RPR and UDF, were both divided internally over the referendum on the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty : While Jacques Chirac , Édouard Balladur and Alain Juppé (all RPR) as well as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , Alain Madelin and François Bayrou (all UDF) had campaigned for ratification, Charles Pasqua , Philippe Séguin , François Fillon (all RPR) and Philippe de Villiers (UDF) campaigned for a “no”. Nonetheless, the center-right camp ran for the election as Union pour la France and was ultimately able to win it.
As a result of the election there was a cohabitation with Mitterrand as President and Balladur as Prime Minister.
First round
Participation
| number | % of eligible voters | |
|---|---|---|
| Registered | 38,968,660 | 100 |
| Voters | 26,796,142 | 68.93 |
| Non-voters | 12,108,483 | 31.07 |
| invalid votes | 1,417,984 | 5.28 |
| valid votes | 25.378.158 | 94.72 |
Results
| Political party | be right | Share of votes based on all eligible voters in percent | Share of votes based on the valid votes in percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme left | 423.282 | 1.09 | 1.67 |
| PCF | 2,331,399 | 6.00 | 9.19 |
| PS | 4,415,495 | 11.36 | 17.40 |
| other parties of the left | 693.945 | 1.78 | 2.73 |
| Les Verts | 1,022,196 | 2.63 | 4.03 |
| Génération écologie | 917.228 | 2.36 | 3.61 |
| Nouvelle écologie | 635.244 | 1.63 | 2.50 |
| Other environmental parties | 141,645 | 0.36 | 0.56 |
| RPR | 5,032,496 | 12.94 | 19.83 |
| UDF | 4,731,013 | 12.16 | 18.64 |
| Nationalists | 70,920 | 0.18 | 0.28 |
| Regionalists | 16,747 | 0.04 | 0.07 |
| other parties to the right | 1,118,032 | 2.88 | 4.41 |
| FN | 3,152,543 | 8.10 | 12.42 |
| other extreme right parties | 35,411 | 0.09 | 0.14 |
| Other | 329.275 | 0.85 | 1.30 |
Second round
voter turnout
| number | % | |
|---|---|---|
| registered in the electoral roll | 33,714,568 | 100.0 |
| Voters | 22,775,879 | 67.55 |
| Non-voters | 10,938,689 | 32.44 |
| blank or invalid ballot papers | 2,159,346 | 6.40 |
| valid votes | 20,616,533 | 61.15 |
Results
| Political party | be right | Share of votes based on all eligible voters in percent | Share of votes based on the valid votes in percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCF | 951.213 | 2.82 | 4.61 |
| PS | 6,143,179 | 18.22 | 29.80 |
| Environmental parties | 37,491 | 0.11 | 0.18 |
| RPR | 5,741,623 | 17.03 | 27.85 |
| UDF | 5,178,039 | 15.35 | 25.12 |
| Other parties to the right | 588,455 | 1.74 | 2.85 |
| FN | 1,168,160 | 3.46 | 5.67 |
Composition of the National Assembly
Composition of the National Assembly after the second ballot. Later the numbers changed a bit, e.g. B. by by-elections or party converts.
| fraction | Members | Apparentés | Total | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RPR | 245 | 12 | 257 | 44.54 |
| UDF | 213 | 2 | 215 | 37.26 |
| Socialists | 52 | 5 | 57 | 9.88 |
| République et liberté ( DVD , MRG , MDC , MDR ) | 23 | 0 | 23 | 3.99 |
| Communists | 22nd | 1 | 23 | 3.99 |
| Independent | 2 | - | 2 | 0.35 |
| Total | 577 | - | - | 100% |
See also
- fr: List of the députés de la Xe législature de la Cinquième République
- fr: Results par département des élections législatives françaises de 1993
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