1968 French legislative election

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1968 French legislative election

← 1967 23 June and 30 June 1968 1973 →
All 487 seats to the French National Assembly 244 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	80.0% ( 0.9 pp) (1st round) 77.8% ( 2.2 pp) (2nd round)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Georges Pompidou François Mitterrand Party UDR FGDS Leader's seat Cantal-2nd Nièvre-3rd Last election 243 seats 117 seats Seats won 354* 57 Seat change 111 60 Popular vote 9,667,532 (1st round) 6,762,170 (2nd round) 3,660,250 (1st round) 3,097,338 (2nd round) Percentage 43.65% (1st round) 46.39% (2nd round) 16.53% (1st round) 21.25% (2nd round)   Third party Fourth party   Leader Waldeck Rochet Camille Laurens (NCIP), Jean Lecanuet (CD, above) Party PCF Progress and Modern Democracy Leader's seat Seine-Saint-Denis Seine-Maritime (Lecanuet, as Senator) Last election 73 seats 41 seats (CD) Seats won 34 33 Seat change 39 11 Popular vote 4,434,832 (1st round) 2,935,775 (2nd round) 2,289,849 (1st round) 1,141,305 (2nd round) Percentage 20.02% (1st round) 20.14% (2nd round) 10.34% (1st round) 7.83% (2nd round)
* Including Independent Republicans.
PM before election Georges Pompidou UDR Elected PM Maurice Couve de Murville UDR

Early legislative elections took place in France on 23 and 30 June 1968 to elect the fourth French National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. The Gaullist party Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR) won a majority with 292 seats in parliament, while its allies, the Independent Republicans (RI), won 61 seats.^[1]