French legislative Elections of 1967

The legislative elections of 1967 took place the 5 and March 12th 1967 (third legislature).

Composition of the National Assembly

a vacant seat (French Coast of Somalis)

Results by department

Analyzes results

After the setting in ballotage of Charles de Gaulle by François Mitterrand in 1965, the legislative elections of 1967 are a new disappointment for the capacity and the de Gaulle general. If the first turn of legislative is a clear victory of the gaullists, one witnesses a reversal of trend with the second turn (one can compare this situation besides with that of legislative of 2007). Indeed, against any waiting, the second turn will cause the surprise which the results of the first turn made improbable. It is necessary very little of it so that the gaullist majority does not lose his preponderance at the National Assembly. On 470 seats in metropolis, the gaullism conquers only 233 of them. It finally has very a small majority of 247 seats out of 487. The left, beaten of a short head seems the large triumphing one, the Communists passing from 41 to 73 elected officials and the noncommunist left from 105 to 121 (including 76 Socialists, 24 radicals, 16 members of the Convention of the republican institutions of François Mitterrand and 5 various left). Thus, the gaullist majority came very close to little a historical defeat and crisis of mode. These results precede also certain way the crisis of 1968.

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