The Ensemble! coalition, which supports Emmanuel Macron, elected 234 deputies, down from the 289 needed to achieve an absolute majority, and the left-wing NUPES coalition won 124, with 97% of votes counted.
According to data released on the website of the French Ministry of the Interior, with 97% of votes counted, the Ensemble! (Juntos!, in Portuguese) was in first place, with 7,821,659 votes (38.33%), electing 234 elected deputies.
In second place, the left-wing coalition Nova União Popular Ecológica e Social (NUPES) – which joins forces such as Insubmissive France, the socialists, ecologists and communists – has 124 deputies and 6,418,964 votes (31.46%).
With 3,589,460 votes (17.59%), Marine Le Pen’s National Union obtains 89 deputies, a significant increase compared to the results it had obtained in the last legislative elections, in 2017, when it had elected eight deputies.
The center-right Republican party has 61 deputies, enough to, together with the presidential coalition, manage to form a governing majority, which requires 289 deputies.
To these parties, there are also the ‘nuances’ attributed to independent candidates: 22 deputies were elected from “various lefts”, 10 “regionalists” and another 10 from “various rights”.
Legislative elections define the composition of the French National Assembly – made up of 577 deputies – and operate on the basis of a two-round, uninominal majority system.
