2024 European Parliament election in France

The 2024 European Parliament elections in France were held on 9 June 2024, as part of the 2024 European Parliament election.

Background
The Borne government lost its majority in the 2022 French legislative election.

Electoral system
A bill creating a single national constituency was approved by the National Assembly in a vote on the first reading on 20 February 2018, and the Senate officially adopted the bill on 23 May 2018, which was promulgated on 25 June after its validation by the Constitutional Council.

All French members of the European Parliament were elected through a closed list proportional representation system.

Apportionment
As a result of Brexit, 27 seats from the British delegation were distributed to other countries in January 2020 (those elected in 2019, but not yet seated took their seats). The other 46 seats were abolished with the total number of MEPs decreasing from 751 to 705 after that. However for the 2024 election 15 of those abolished seats were reinstated with France electing two of those extra MEPs.

Outgoing delegation
The table shows the detailed composition of the French seats at the European Parliament as of 13 February 2024.

Voting advice applications
In France, candidator.fr allows users to find the list leader who best matches their convictions through 16 questions that position the respondent and candidates on 4 axes: environmental progressivism vs environmental conservatism, migration protectionism vs migration altruism, European federalism vs nationalism, egalitarianism vs capitalism.

Aftermath
About one hour after results for the European Parliament election showed that his Renew party would place a distant second to National Rally, Emmanuel Macron called for the dissolution of parliament and snap legislative elections occurring in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July. He decried the results of the election as indicating the rise of nationalists and far-right political firebrands that would threaten France and Europe, who represented the "impoverishment of the French people and the downfall of our country".