The 2024 European Parliament elections in France were held on 9 June 2024, as part of the 2024 European Parliament election.[1]
The Borne government lost its majority in the 2022 French legislative election.[2]
A bill creating a single national constituency was approved by the National Assembly in a vote on the first reading on 20 February 2018,[3] and the Senate officially adopted the bill on 23 May 2018,[4] which was promulgated on 25 June after its validation by the Constitutional Council.[5]
All French members of the European Parliament were[when?] elected through a closed list proportional representation system.
When the United Kingdom left the European Union in January 2020, 46 of Britain's 73 seats were abolished and 27 seats were reapportioned to other countries.[6] As a result, the total number of MEPs decreased from 751 seats to 705.[7]
For the 2024 election, the European Parliament was increased to 720 MEPs with France receiving two new seats.[8]
The table shows the detailed composition of the French seats at the European Parliament as of 13 February 2024.
In France, candidator.fr allows users to find the list leader who best matches their convictions through 16 questions that position the respondent and candidates on 4 axes: environmental progressivism vs environmental conservatism, migration protectionism vs migration altruism, European federalism vs nationalism, egalitarianism vs capitalism.[25]
About one hour after results for the European Parliament election showed that his Renaissance party would place a distant second to National Rally, Emmanuel Macron called for the dissolution of parliament and snap legislative elections occurring in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July. He decried the results of the election as indicating the rise of nationalists and far-right political firebrands that would threaten France and Europe, who represented the "impoverishment of the French people and the downfall of our country".[27]