# 2023 French Senate election

Senatorial elections took place on 24 September 2023 to renew 172 of the 348 seats in the Senate of the French Fifth Republic. The Republicans, led by Bruno Retailleau, emerged as the largest group for the fourth consecutive cycle, but lost 7 seats.

## Context
### 2020 senatorial elections

The 2020 senatorial elections led to a renforcement of the right-wing and centre majority. The parties making up majority of the National Assembly failed to gain ascendancy, while the Ecologist group reappeared.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the renewal of six senators representing French citizens living abroad was pushed back a year, while the French consular elections were themselves postponed till May 2021. As a result, their renewal took place in September 2021.
In its previous configuration from the elections of 2022, the Senate was composed of three major groups (LR, UC and SER) and six minor groups. It was thus predominantly right- and centre-leaning. The Republicans and Centrist Union group had 202 out of 348 seats, forming a majority. The main force of opposition came from the Socialists with 64 senators.

### 2022 presidential and legislative elections

These elections took place 16 months after the 2022 presidential election, which saw the reelection of the outgoing President Emmanuel Macron, as well as 14 months after the 2022 legislative election, which marked the end of the 15th legislature of the Fifth Republic. The latter led to a recomposition of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament.

## Partisan objectives

The senatorial majority of the right and centre was the favourite retain the their majority. According to senator Roger Karoutchi of Hauts-de-Seine, the prospects ranged from a loss of 5 seats to a gain of 2 seats within the Senate Republicans, the most important group in terms of the numerical strength in the Senate.
With regard to the centrists, their objective was the surpassing the Socialist group and becoming the Senate's secondary political group. Numerically, the group's prospects ranged from a loss of 4 seats to a gain of 3 seats.

## Results
### Detailed results

| Departement | Outgoing senator | Party | Elected senator | Party |
| Indre-et-Loire | Serge Babary | LR | Jean-Gérard Paumier | LR |
| Indre-et-Loire | Isabelle Raimond-Pavero | LR | Vincent Louault | HOR |
| Indre-et-Loire | Pierre Louault | SE | Pierre-Alain Roiron | PS |
| Isère | Michel Savin | LR | Michel Savin | LR |
| Isère | Frédérique Puissat | LR | Frédérique Puissat | LR |
| Isère | André Vallini | PS | Damien Michallet | LR |
| Isère | Didier Rambaud | RE | Didier Rambaud | RE |
| Isère | Guillaume Gontard | EELV | Guillaume Gontard | EELV |
| Jura | Marie-Christine Chauvin | LR | Clément Pernot | LR |
| Jura | Sylvie Vermeillet | PRV | Sylvie Vermeillet | PRV |
| Landes | Monique Lubin | PS | Monique Lubin | PS |
| Landes | Éric Kerrouche | PS | Éric Kerrouche | PS |
| Loir-et-Cher | Jean-Marie Janssens | UDI | Bernard Pillefer | SE |
| Loir-et-Cher | Jean-Paul Prince | PS | Jean-Luc Brault | SE |
| Loire | Bernard Bonne | LR | Hervé Reynaud | LR |
| Loire | Bernard Fournier | LR | Pierre-Jean Rochette | SE |
| Loire | Jean-Claude Tissot | PS | Jean-Claude Tissot | PS |
| Loire | Cécile Cukierman | PCF | Cécile Cukierman | PCF |
| Haute-Loire | Laurent Duplomb | LR | Laurent Duplomb | LR |
| Haute-Loire | Olivier Cigolotti | UDI | Olivier Cigolotti | UDI |
| Loire-Atlantique | Laurence Garnier | LR | Laurence Garnier | LR |
| Loire-Atlantique | Joël Guerriau | HOR | Joël Guerriau | HOR |
| Loire-Atlantique | Yannick Vaugrenard | PS | Philippe Grosvalet | PS |
| Loire-Atlantique | Michelle Meunier | PS | Karine Daniel | PS |
| Loire-Atlantique | Ronan Dantec | EELV | Ronan Dantec | EELV |
| Loiret | Hugues Saury | LR | Hugues Saury | LR |
| Loiret | Jean-Noël Cardoux | LR | Pauline Martin | LR |
| Loiret | Jean-Pierre Sueur | PS | Christophe Chaillou | PS |
| Lot | Jean-Claude Requier | PRV | Raphaël Daubet | PRV |
| Lot | Angèle Préville | PS | Jean-Marc Vayssouze-Faure | PS |
| Lot-et-Garonne | Christine Bonfanti-Dossat | LR | Christine Bonfanti-Dossat | LR |
| Lot-et-Garonne | Jean-Pierre Moga | UDI | Michel Masset | SE |
| Lozère | Guylène Pantel | PS | Guylène Pantel | PS |
| Maine-et-Loire | Stéphane Piednoir | LR | Stéphane Piednoir | LR |
| Maine-et-Loire | Catherine Deroche | LR | Corinne Bourcier | SE |
| Maine-et-Loire | Emmanuel Capus | HOR | Emmanuel Capus | HOR |
| Maine-et-Loire | Joël Bigot | PS | Grégory Blanc | SE |
| Manche | Philippe Bas | LR | Philippe Bas | LR |
| Manche | Béatrice Gosselin | LR | Béatrice Gosselin | LR |
| Manche | Jean-Michel Houllegatte | SE | Sébastien Fagnen | PS |
| Marne | René-Paul Savary | LR | Christian Bruyen | SE |
| Marne | Françoise Férat | UDI | Anne-Sophie Romagny | UDI |
| Marne | Yves Détraigne | UDI | Cadric Chevalier | HOR |
| Haute-Marne | Bruno Sido | LR | Bruno Sido | LR |
| Haute-Marne | Charles Guené | LR | Anne-Marie Nédélec | SE |
| Mayenne | Guillaume Chevrollier | LR | Guillaume Chevrollier | LR |
| Mayenne | Elisabeth Doineau | SE | Elisabeth Doineau | SE |
| Meurthe-et-Moselle | Jean-François Husson | LR | Jean-François Husson | LR |
| Meurthe-et-Moselle | Véronique Guillotin | PRV | Véronique Guillotin | PRV |
| Meurthe-et-Moselle | Olivier Jacquin | PS | Olivier Jacquin | PS |
| Meurthe-et-Moselle | Véronique Del Fabro | SE | Silvana Silvani | PCF |
| Meuse | Gérard Longuet | LR | Jocelyne Antoine | SE |
| Meuse | Franck Menonville | UDI | Franck Menonville | UDI |
| Morbihan | Muriel Jourda | LR | Muriel Jourda | LR |
| Morbihan | Jacques le Nay | UDI | Yves Bleunven | SE |
| Morbihan | Joël Labbé | SE | Simon Uzenat | PS |
| Moselle | Jean-Louis Masson | SE | Khalifé Khalifé | LR |
| Moselle | Catherine Belrhiti | LR | Catherine Belrhiti | LR |
| Moselle | Jean-Marie Mizzon | UDI | Jean-Marie Mizzon | UDI |
| Moselle | Christine Herzog | SE | Christine Herzog | SE |
| Moselle | Jean-Marc Todeschini | PS | Michaël Weber | PS |
| Nièvre | Nadia Sollogoub | SE | Nadia Sollogoub | SE |
| Nièvre | Patrice Joly | PS | Patrice Joly | PS |
| Nord | Brigitte Lherbier | LR | Joshua Hochart | RN |
| Nord | Marc-Philippe Daubresse | LR | Marc-Philippe Daubresse | LR |
| Nord | Olivier Henno | UDI | Olivier Henno | UDI |
| Nord | Valérie Létard | UDI | Guislain Cambier | UDI |
| Nord | Jean-Pierre Decool | SE | Marie-Claude Lermytte | SE |
| Nord | Dany Wattebled | SE | Dany Wattebled | SE |
| Nord | Frédéric Marchand | RE | Franck Dhersin | HOR |
| Nord | Martine Filleul | SE | Audrey Linkenheld | PS |
| Nord | Patrick Kanner | PS | Patrick Kanner | PS |
| Nord | Eric Bocquet | PCF | Eric Bocquet | PCF |
| Nord | Michelle Gréaume | PCF | Michelle Gréaume | PCF |
| Oise | Edouard Courtial | LR | Edouard Courtial | LR |
| Oise | Jérôme Bascher | LR | Sylvie Valente-Le Hir | SE |
| Oise | Olivier Paccaud | SE | Olivier Paccaud | SE |
| Oise | Laurence Rossignol | PS | Alexandre Ouizille | PS |
| Orne | Nathalie Goulet | UDI | Nathalie Goulet | UDI |
| Orne | Vincent Segouin | LR | Olivier Bitz | HOR |
| Pas-de-Calais | Michel Dagbert | RE | Christopher Szczurek | RN |
| Pas-de-Calais | Jean-François Rapin | LR | Jean-François Rapin | LR |
| Pas-de-Calais | Amel Gacquerre | UDI | Amel Gacquerre | UDI |
| Pas-de-Calais | Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe | MoDem | Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe | MoDem |
| Pas-de-Calais | Sabine Van Heghe | MDC | Jérôme Darras | PS |
| Pas-de-Calais | Jean-Pierre Corbisez | SE | Jean-Pierre Corbisez | SE |
| Pas-de-Calais | Cathy Apourceau-Poly | PCF | Cathy Apourceau-Poly | PCF |
| Puy-de-Dôme | Jean-Marc Boyer | LR | Jean-Marc Boyer | LR |
| Puy-de-Dôme | Eric Gold | SE | Eric Gold | SE |
| Puy-de-Dôme | Jacques-Bernard Magner | PS | Marion Canales | PS |
| Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Max Brisson | LR | Max Brisson | LR |
| Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Denise Saint-Pé | MoDem | Denise Saint-Pé | MoDem |
| Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Frédérique Espagnac | PS | Frédérique Espagnac | PS |
| Hautes-Pyrénées | Maryse Carrère | PRG | Maryse Carrère | PRG |
| Hautes-Pyrénées | Viviane Artigalas | PS | Viviane Artigalas | PS |
| Pyrénées-Orientales | Jean Sol | LR | Jean Sol | LR |
| Pyrénées-Orientales | François Calvet | LR | Lauriane Josende | LR |
| Paris | Catherine Dumas | LR | Catherine Dumas | LR |
| Paris | Pierre Charon | LR | Francis Szpiner | LR |
| Paris | Philippe Dominati | SE | Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée | LR |
| Paris | Céline Boulay-Espéronnier | SE | Agnès Evren | LR |
| Paris | Julien Bargeton | RE | Colombe Brossel | PS |
| Paris | Rémi Féraud | PS | Rémi Féraud | PS |
| Paris | Marie-Pierre de La Gontrie | PS | Marie-Pierre de La Gontrie | PS |
| Paris | Bernard Jomier | PS | Bernard Jomier | PS |
| Paris | David Assouline | PS | Yannick Jadot | EELV |
| Paris | Esther Benbassa | SE | Anne Souyris | EELV |
| Paris | Marie-Noëlle Lienemann | GRS | Antoinette Guhl | EELV |
| Paris | Pierre Laurent | PCF | Ian Brossat | PCF |
| Seine-et-Marne | Claudine Thomas | LR | Aymeric Durox | RN |
| Seine-et-Marne | Pierre Cuypers | LR | Pierre Cuypers | LR |
| Seine-et-Marne | Anne Chain-Larché | LR | Anne Chain-Larché | LR |
| Seine-et-Marne | Colette Mélot | HOR | Louis Vogel | HOR |
| Seine-et-Marne | Vincent Eblé | PS | Vincent Eblé | PS |
| Seine-et-Marne | Arnaud de Belenet | AC | Marianne Margaté | PCF |
| Yvelines | Gérard Larcher | LR | Gérard Larcher | LR |
| Yvelines | Sophie Primas | LR | Sophie Primas | LR |
| Yvelines | Marta de Cidrac | LR | Marta de Cidrac | LR |
| Yvelines | Michel Laugier | UDI | Michel Laugier | UDI |
| Yvelines | Martin Lévrier | RE | Martin Lévrier | RE |
| Yvelines | Toine Bourrat | LR | Ghislaine Senée | EELV |
| Essonne | Laure Darcos | LR | Laure Darcos | LR |
| Essonne | Jean-Raymond Hugonet | LR | Jean-Raymond Hugonet | LR |
| Essonne | Vincent Delahaye | UDI | Vincent Delahaye | UDI |
| Essonne | Jocelyne Guidez | UDI | Jocelyne Guidez | UDI |
| Essonne | Daphné Ract-Madoux | MoDem | David Ros | PS |
| Hauts-de-Seine | Roger Karoutchi | LR | Roger Karoutchi | LR |
| Hauts-de-Seine | Christine Lavarde | LR | Christine Lavarde | LR |
| Hauts-de-Seine | Philippe Pemezec | LR | Marie-Do Aeschlimann | LR |
| Hauts-de-Seine | Hervé Marseille | UDI | Hervé Marseille | UDI |
| Hauts-de-Seine | André Gattolin | RE | Isabelle Florennes | MoDem |
| Hauts-de-Seine | Xavier Iacovelli | RE | Xavier Iacovelli | RE |
| Hauts-de-Seine | Pierre Ouzoulias | PCF | Pierre Ouzoulias | PCF |
| Seine-Saint-Denis | Thierry Meignen | LR | Thierry Meignen | LR |
| Seine-Saint-Denis | Vincent Capo-Canellas | UDI | Vincent Capo-Canellas | UDI |
| Seine-Saint-Denis | Annie Delmont-Koropoulis | LR | Ahmed Laouedj | PRG |
| Seine-Saint-Denis | Gilbert Roger | PS | Corinne Narassiguin | PS |
| Seine-Saint-Denis | Eliane Assassi | PCF | Adel Ziane | PS |
| Seine-Saint-Denis | Fabien Gay | PCF | Fabien Gay | PCF |
| Val-de-Marne | Christian Cambon | LR | Christian Cambon | LR |
| Val-de-Marne | Catherine Procaccia | LR | Marie-Carole Ciuntu | LR |
| Val-de-Marne | Laurent Lafon | UDI | Laurent Lafon | UDI |
| Val-de-Marne | Daniel Breuiller | EELV | Akli Mellouli | SE |
| Val-de-Marne | Laurence Cohen | PCF | Laurence Rossignol | PS |
| Val-de-Marne | Pascal Savoldelli | PCF | Pascal Savoldelli | PCF |
| Val-d'Oise | Arnaud Bazin | LR | Arnaud Bazin | LR |
| Val-d'Oise | Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio | LR | Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio | LR |
| Val-d'Oise | Sébastien Meurant | REC | Daniel Fargeot | SE |
| Val-d'Oise | Rachid Temal | PS | Rachid Temal | PS |
| Val-d'Oise | Alain Richard | RE | Pierre Barros | PCF |
| Guadeloupe | Dominique Théophile | GUSR | Dominique Théophile | GUSR |
| Guadeloupe | Victoire Jasmin | PS | Solanges Nadille | GUSR |
| Guadeloupe | Victorin Lurel | PS | Victorin Lurel | PS |
| Martinique | Catherine Conconne | LME | Catherine Conconne | LME |
| Martinique | Maurice Antiste | MPF | Frédéric Buval | DT |
| Réunion | Viviane Malet | LR | Viviane Malet | LR |
| Réunion | Jean-Louis Lagourgue | SE | Stéphane Fouassin | UDI |
| Réunion | Nassimah Dindar | AC | Audrey Bélim | PS |
| Réunion | Michel Dennemont | RE | Evelyne Corbière | PLR |
| Mayotte | Thani Mohamed Soilihi | RE | Thani Mohamed Soilihi | RE |
| Mayotte | Abdallah Hassani | MDM | Saïd Omar Oili | NEMA |
| New Caledonia | Pierre Frogier | R-LR | Georges Naturel | R-LR |
| New Caledonia | Gérard Poadja | CE | Robert Xowie | UC |

### Senators who lost reelection

| Senator | Party | Department | Since |
| Isabelle Raimond-Pavero | LR | Indre-et-Loire | 2017 |
| Angèle Préville | PS | Lot | 2017 |
| Jean-Pierre Moga | UDI | Lot-et-Garonne | 2017 |
| Brigitte Lherbier | LR | Nord | 2017 |
| Frédéric Marchand | RE | Nord | 2017 |
| Martine Filleul | SE | Nord | 2017 |
| Jérôme Bascher | LR | Oise | 2017 |
| Vincent Segouin | LR | Orne | 2018 |
| Sabine Van Heghe | MDC | Pas-de-Calais | 2017 |
| Pierre Charon | LR | Paris | 2011 |
| Julien Bargeton | RE | Paris | 2017 |
| Claudine Thomas | LR | Seine-et-Marne | 2017 |
| Toine Bourrat | LR | Yvelines | 2020 |
| Daphné Ract-Madoux | MoDem | Essonne | 2022 |
| Philippe Pemezec | LR | Hauts-de-Seine | 2017 |
| Sébastien Meurant | REC | Val-d'Oise | 2017 |
| Alain Richard | RE | Val-d'Oise | 2011 |
| Victoire Jasmin | PS | Guadeloupe | 2017 |
| Nassimah Dindar | AC | Réunion | 2017 |
| Pierre Frogier | R-LR | New Caledonia | 2011 |
| Gérard Poadja | CE | New Caledonia | 2017 |