Political party strength in France

This article currently only has information about the French Fifth Republic.

Political party strength under Fifth Republic

Source: ^[1]

The following table indicates the great officers in the French Republic  :

• President of the Republic
• President of the Senate
• Prime minister
• President of the National Assembly

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the :

• Senate
• National Assembly
• Regional Council
• General Council

The parties are as follows:   Left-wing (PS, LFI, EÉLV, allies, and predecessors),   Right-wing (LR, RN, allies, and predecessors),   Centrist (LREM, UDF, allies, and predecessors),    Independents .

Year	Executive offices				Parliament		Local government		European Union
	President of the Republic	Prime minister	President of the Senate	President of the National Assembly	National Assembly	Senate	Regional Councils	General council	French delegation	European commissioner
1959	Charles de Gaulle (UNR-UDR)	Michel Debré (UNR)	Gaston Monnerville (PRRS)	Jacques Chaban-Delmas (UNR-UDR)	494 - 52	161 - 148	Creation of Regional Councils
1960
1961
1962		Georges Pompidou (UNR)			324 - 152	152 - 122
1963
1964
1965						147 - 127
1966
1967					293 - 194
1968		Maurice Couve (UNR-UDR)	Alain Poher [2] (CD-CDS)		396 - 91	156 - 127
1969	Georges Pompidou (UDR)	Jacques Chaban-Delmas (UDR)		Achille Peretti (UDR)
1970
1971						159 - 124
1972		Pierre Messmer (UDR)
1973				Edgar Faure (UDR)	314 - 176
1974	Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (IR-RP-UDF)	Jacques Chirac (RPR)				157 - 126
1975
1976		Raymond Barre (IR-UDF)
1977						161 - 134
1978				Jacques Chaban-Delmas (RPR)	287 - 200
1979
1980						160 - 144
1981	François Mitterrand (PS)	Pierre Mauroy (PS)		Louis Mermaz (PS)	333 - 158
1982
1983						179 - 138
1984		Laurent Fabius (PS)
1985
1986		Jacques Chirac (RPR)		Jacques Chaban-Delmas (RPR)	290 - 248	201 - 118	20 - 2
1987
1988		Michel Rocard (PS)		Laurent Fabius (PS)	276 - 271
1989						211 - 110
1990
1991		Édith Cresson (PS)
1992		Pierre Beregovoy (PS)	René Monory (CDS-FD)	Henri Emmanuelli (PS)		203 - 118	20 - 2
1993		Edouard Balladur (RPR)		Philippe Séguin (RPR)	485 - 91
1994									41 R - 35 L
1995	Jacques Chirac (RPR-UMP)	Alain Juppé (RPR)				199 - 122				Édith Cresson (PS)	Y-T De Silguy (Ind)
1996
1997		Lionel Jospin (PS)		Laurent Fabius (PS)	320 - 253
1998			Christian Poncelet (RPR-UMP)			200 – 121	14 R - 8 L	63 R - 36 L
1999									40 R - 37 L	Pascal Lamy (PS)	Michel Barnier (UMP)
2000				Raymond Forni (PS)
2001						189 – 131		59 R - 40 L
2002		Jean-Pierre Raffarin (UMP)		Jean-Louis Debré [3] (UMP)	399 - 178
2003
2004						189 - 142	20 L - 2 R	50 L - 49 R	40 L - 31 R	Jacques Barrot (UMP)
2005		Dominique de Villepin (UMP)
2006
2007	Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP)	François Fillon (UMP)		Bernard Accoyer (UMP)	345 - 227
2008			Gérard Larcher (UMP)			180 - 163		57 L - 42 R
2009									33 L - 30 R	Michel Barnier (UMP)
2010							21 L - 1 R
2011			Jean-Pierre Bel (PS)			177 - 171		61 L - 39 R
2012	François Hollande (PS)	Jean-Marc Ayrault (PS)		Claude Bartolone (PS)	331 - 229
2013
2014		Manuel Valls (PS)	Gérard Larcher (LR)			187 R - 152 L			51 R - 23 L	Pierre Moscovici (PS)
2015							8 R - 7 L	69 R - 31 L
2016
2017	Emmanuel Macron (LREM)	Édouard Philippe (Horizons)		François de Rugy (PÉ)	351 C - 146 R - 72 L	206 R - 114 L
2018				Richard Ferrand (LREM)
2019									31 R - 25 C - 23 L	Thierry Breton (Ind)
2020		Jean Castex (Ind)				215 R - 107 L
2021							8 L - 7 R - 1 C	65 R - 26 L - 4 C
2022		Élisabeth Borne (LREM-TdP)		Yaël Braun-Pivet (LREM)	249 C - 164 R - 154 L

Notes

1. The distribution of duties under the Fifth Republic
2. Alain Poher served as Acting President in 1969 and 1974
3. From March to June 2007, Patrick Ollier replaced Debré as National Assembly President

See also

• Government and politics in France
• Politics of France