✶ République française · 49.3 million registered voters in 2024

Two rounds,
one hung Assembly.

France elects a President for five years in a national run-off and 577 deputies in single-member constituencies, also in two rounds. The President names the Prime Minister, but the government falls if an absolute majority of deputies votes to censure it. Since 2024, no bloc has had that majority.

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Deux tours · 539 mainland constituencies, 2024 · lower layer: who led round one · upper layer: who won · columns: decided in round one (73) · threads: the round-one leader lost (168; the far right led in 295 and lost 154 of them)

National Assembly · 17th legislature, elected July 2024

288
to govern alone.

The largest group, the RN, has 121. Governments since 2024 have relied on the centre and the right, which together fall short, and survive as long as the left and the far right do not vote together to censure them.

193 Left (2024 New Popular Front)
162 Central bloc (Ensemble)
46 Droite républicaine
138 RN and allies
35 Others and non-attached

288 needed for a majority

LFI 70
GDR 17
Ecologists 38
Socialists 68
LIOT 24
EPR (Renaissance) 90
MoDem 37
Horizons 35
Droite républicaine 46
UDR (Ciotti) 17
RN 121
Non-attached 11

Groups as of 4 November 2026 · 3 seats vacant · Seated left to right as in the chamber · Assemblée nationale open data ↗

Who holds office

The Élysée,
Matignon and the chambers.

President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron Since 14 May 2017 Re-elected 2022. Article 6 bars a third consecutive term, so he cannot stand in 2027.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu Since 10 October 2025 First appointed 9 Sep 2025; resigned 6 Oct and was reappointed four days later.
President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet Since 18 July 2024
President of the Senate Gérard Larcher Since 1 October 2014 Re-elected 1 Oct 2026 with 203 of 302 votes, after the September renewal.
President of the Constitutional Council Richard Ferrand Since 8 March 2025 Nine-year term, to 2034.

Photos: Yaël Braun-Pivet — Houses of the Oireachtas from Ireland, CC BY 2.0 · Gérard Larcher — Senate, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Richard Ferrand — Faculté de droit Paris-Est Créteil, CC BY-SA 2.0 . Others public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

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Recent
elections.

27 September 2026 · 178 of 348 seats
Senate, series 2
- Les Républicains 124
- UCI 63
- SER 62
- CRCE-K 18
Groups in the new Senate. Gérard Larcher re-elected its President.
Seat by seat →
15 & 22 March 2026
Municipal elections

About 35,000 councils. Paris elected Emmanuel Grégoire (PS); Lyon re-elected Grégory Doucet (Greens).
Results ↗
30 June & 7 July 2024
Snap legislative election

Called after the President dissolved the Assembly. No bloc won a majority.
Seat by seat →
2024 · round-one turnout
66.7%

32,908,657 of 49,332,709 registered voters turned out for the snap election called after the 2024 dissolution.

Pending Three Assembly seats awaiting their substitutes Eight deputies became senators on 27 Sep 2026. A deputy elected senator is replaced by their substitute (Code électoral LO 137, LO 176); a by-election is held only if that is impossible (LO 178). Five substitutes took their seats on 8 Oct. Aube 2nd (Bernard De La Hamayde), Charente-Maritime 5th (Vanessa Parent) and Gironde 11th (Christine Dumas) were still vacant in the Assembly's open data on 4 Nov 2026; a challenge to the Gironde senatorial election is before the Constitutional Council (2026-6580 SEN), and the vacancy is proclaimed only after it rules.
18 April 2027 Presidential election, round 1 Run-off 2 May 2027. Voters in the Antilles, Guyane, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, St-Barthélemy, St-Martin and French Polynesia, and French citizens voting in the Americas, vote the day before.
March 2028 Regional and departmental elections Sundays not yet set.
2029 European Parliament and National Assembly The Assembly's term runs to 2029 unless it is dissolved first.

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Two rounds,one hung Assembly.

288 to govern alone.

The Élysée,Matignon and the chambers.

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Snap legislative election

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Two rounds,
one hung Assembly.

288
to govern alone.

The Élysée,
Matignon and the chambers.

Recent
elections.

The road
to 2027.