The citizens of France vote for their share of the future composition of the European Parliament the same day as those in Spain, Sunday, June 9, 2024. But there the polling stations are open one hour before and close two hours before. That is, they are available from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., at a different time than in Spain (from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.). However, they use the same system when voting: the one of the closed lists. The French neighbors vote for the complete list of the formation they prefer without the possibility of ordering their candidates in order of preference. Similarly, the age at which one can begin to exercise the right to vote in European elections in France is 18 years.

Thus, citizens who can (if they want, because in France is not obligatory to vote either unlike other areas) opt for one of eight main candidates. These votes are what will draw the color of the 81 seats of the European Parliament that belong to France. These are two more seats than it currently has, given that before each electoral process the European Union can decide whether or not to increase the seats (within a limit) and this time it has chosen to do so. In this way, the French More seats will vote than in the 2019 elections.

The definitive results of the European elections in France They give the winner to Marine Le Pen, a group that also won five years ago:

  • National Rassemblement: 31.37%
  • Coalition Besoin d’Europe: 14.60%
  • Coalition Réveiller l’Europe (Parti socialiste, Place Pública): 13.83%
  • La France Insoumise: 9.89%
  • Les Républicains: 7.25%

By political parties, the most voted in 2019 were Rassemblement nationaltraining chaired by Marine Le Penand the coalition led by Renaissance, the party of the current French president, and which included other parties: MoDem, Agir and Mouvement radical, social et libéral. Both were very few points apart.

The first won 23.34% of the votes, while the second registered 22.42%. Thus, given that within the European Parliament all the formations that obtain seats are divided into European formations, RN did so as part of the Identity and Democracy Group and the coalition became part of the Renew Europe Group. Then a total of 79 seats were distributed and were distributed as follows in the European groups:

  • 23 MEPs to the Renew Europe Group
  • 18 deputies to the Identity and Democracy Group
  • 12 MEPs to the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
  • 8 MEPs to the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats)
  • 7 MEPs to the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
  • 6 euros deputies Left Group in the European Parliament
  • 4 MEPs not registered in any group
  • 1 member of the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists