1999 European Parliament election in France
Results

1999 European Parliament election in France

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: None

Parties and coalitions	Top Candidate	EP Group	Votes	%	Seats

Socialist Party (Parti socialiste)	François Hollande	PES	3,873,901	21.95	22

Rally for France (Rassemblement pour la France) Movement for France (Mouvement pour la France)	Charles Pasqua Philippe de Villiers	UEN	2,304,285	13.05	13

Rally for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République) Liberal Democracy (Démocratie libérale)	Nicolas Sarkozy Alain Madelin	EPP-ED	2,263,476	12.82	12

The Greens (Les Verts)	Daniel Cohn-Bendit	G-EFA	1,715,450	9.72	9

Union for French Democracy (Union pour la démocratie Française)	François Bayrou	EPP-ED	1,638,680	9.28	9

French Communist Party (Parti communiste français)	Robert Hue	GUE-NGL	1,196,310	6.78	6

Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions (Chasse, pêche, nature, traditions)	Jean Saint-Josse	EDD	1,195,727	6.77	6

National Front (Front national)	Jean-Marie Le Pen	TGI	1,005,225	5.69	5

Workers' Struggle (Lutte ouvrière) - Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue communiste révolutionnaire)	Arlette Laguiller	GUE-NGL	914,680	5.18	5

National Republican Movement (Mouvement national républicain)	Bruno Mégret	None	578,774	3.28	0

Others	966,176	5.48	0

Total	17,652,684	100.00	87

Abstention: 53.00% (1st round)

Sentence(s)

Bayrou obtained a result of 9.28%.

final_sentence: Bayrou obtained a result of 9.28%.