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European Parliament elections were held in France on 13 June 2004. The opposition Socialist Party made substantial gains, although this was mainly at the expense of minor parties. The governing Union for a Popular Movement and Union for French Democracy also made gains.
The elections were conducted in seven regional constituencies in metropolitan France, plus an eighth consisting of all overseas departments and territories. Allocation of seats was by proportional representation, with closed lists and no preferential voting, using the rule of the highest average, with a threshold of 5% of the votes in each.
| Constituency | Departements | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Nord-Ouest | Lower Normandy, Upper Normandy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy | 12 |
| Ouest | Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charentes | 10 |
| Est | Alsace, Burgundy, Champagne-Ardenne, Franche-Comté, Lorraine | 10 |
| Sud-Ouest | Aquitaine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées | 10 |
| Sud-Est | Corsica, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes | 13 |
| Massif-Central – Centre | Auvergne, Centre, Limousin | 6 |
| Île-de-France | Île-de-France | 14 |
| Outre-Mer (not shown) | French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna | 3 |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 4,960,756 | 28.90 | 31 | +13 | |
| Union for a Popular Movement | 2,856,368 | 16.64 | 17 | +5 | |
| Union for French Democracy | 2,053,446 | 11.96 | 11 | +2 | |
| National Front | 1,684,947 | 9.81 | 7 | +2 | |
| The Greens | 1,271,394 | 7.41 | 6 | –3 | |
| Movement for France | 1,145,839 | 6.67 | 3 | –3 | |
| French Communist Party–Alliance of the Overseas | 1,009,976 | 5.88 | 3 | –3 | |
| Lutte Ouvrière–Revolutionary Communist League | 440,134 | 2.56 | 0 | –5 | |
| Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions | 297,273 | 1.73 | 0 | –6 | |
| Rally for France | 291,234 | 1.70 | 0 | –13 | |
| France from Below | 266,538 | 1.55 | 0 | New | |
| Rally of French Taxpayers | 147,943 | 0.86 | 0 | New | |
| Workers' Party | 131,434 | 0.77 | 0 | New | |
| Radical Party of the Left | 121,573 | 0.71 | 0 | –2 | |
| Cap21 | 98,700 | 0.57 | 0 | New | |
| UMP dissidents | 79,529 | 0.46 | 0 | New | |
| Independent Ecological Movement | 61,457 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | |
| National Republican Movement | 53,606 | 0.31 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cash Cow Motorist | 52,376 | 0.31 | 0 | New | |
| Euro-Palestine | 50,037 | 0.29 | 0 | New | |
| Live Better with Europe | 26,950 | 0.16 | 0 | New | |
| Europe–Democracy–Esperanto | 25,067 | 0.15 | 0 | New | |
| The Regionalists | 9,249 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
| Earth Otherwise Nothing | 6,222 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
| Alliance Royale | 5,248 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
| Herritarren Zerrenda | 5,157 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
| New Solidarity | 3,129 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Diversity for Europe | 2,807 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| No to Racism | 2,578 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Federalist Party | 1,890 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| We are all Europeans | 1,210 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Savoyan League | 1,155 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| French Union for National Cohesion | 865 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Action for All | 359 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Party of Social Professionals | 300 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| France – Pole of Freedoms | 175 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Jus Cogens | 160 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Humanist Party | 158 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| United France | 119 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Independent France | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 17,167,358 | 100.00 | 78 | –9 | |
| Valid votes | 17,167,358 | 96.70 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 585,245 | 3.30 | |||
| Total votes | 17,752,603 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 41,518,595 | 42.76 | |||
| Source: France Politique | |||||
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