page_title: French Communist Party
section_title: Elected officials
hierarchical_section_title: French Communist Party / Elected officials
caption_attribution_description: English: Self-made map of departments with one or more Communist general councillor (red).
context_page_description: The French Communist Party is a communist party in France.
  Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a strong influence in French politics, especially at the local level. In 2012, the PCF claimed 138,000 members including 70,000 who have paid their membership fees. This would make it the third largest party in France in terms of membership after The Republicans and the Socialist Party.
  Founded in 1920 by the majority faction of the socialist French Section of the Workers' International, it participated in three governments:
  in the provisional government of the Liberation;
  at the beginning of François Mitterrand's presidency; and
  in the Plural Left cabinet led by Lionel Jospin.
  It was also the largest party on the left in France in a number of national elections, from 1945 to 1960, before falling behind the Socialist Party in the 1970s. The PCF has lost further ground to the Socialists since that time.
  Since 2009 the PCF has been a leading member of the Left Front, alongside Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Left Party.
context_section_description: Deputies: Alain Bocquet, Marie-George Buffet, Jean-Jacques Candelier, André Chassaigne, Jean-Paul Dufrègne, Jacqueline Fraysse, Nicolas Sansu, Gaby Charroux, Patrice Carvalho (GDR Group)
  Senators: Éliane Assassi, Marie-France Beaufils, Michel Billout, Dominique Watrin, Annie David, Michelle Demessine, Évelyne Didier, Guy Fischer, Thierry Foucaud, Brigitte Gonthier-Maurin, Pierre Laurent, Gérard Le Cam, Cécile Cukierman, Isabelle Pasquet, Éric Bocquet, Mireille Schurch, Laurence Cohen, Christian Favier, Michel Le Scouarnec (CRC Group)
  MEPs: Patrick Le Hyaric, Jacky Hénin (EUL-NGL Group)
  The PCF has two Presidents of the General Council – in the Val-de-Marne and Allier. It lost Seine-Saint-Denis, which it had held since the 1960s, to the PS in 2008.
caption: Departments with PCF general councillors  One or more PCF general councillor   No PCF general councillor
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