France
European Parliament constituency
Map of the European Parliament constituencies with France highlighted in red
Location among the current constituencies
Member stateFrance
Created1979
MEPs79 (2019)
Sources
[1][2]

From 2004 to 2019, there were eight European Parliament constituencies in France. Since the 2019 European Parliament election, there has been a single constituency covering the whole country.[1]

The constituencies all used the party-list proportional representation with the highest average method from their creation to their abolition. French citizens living abroad were added to the Île-de-France constituency in 2014.[citation needed]

The table below shows the changes to France's European Parliament constituencies over time, listing the numbers of Members of the European Parliament each elected at each European Parliamentary election.

Election Constituencies Total seats
France
1979 81 81
1984 81 81
1989 81 81
1994 87 87
1999 87 87
North-West West East South-West South-East Massif central–Centre Île-de-France Overseas
2004 12 10 10 10 13 6 14 3 78
2009 10 9 9 10 13 5 13 3 72[Note 1]
2014 10 9 9 10 13 5 15[Note 2] 3 74
France
2019 79 79

Notes

  1. ^ Following the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon by France on 14 February 2008, and entering into application on 1 December 2009 (after the last instruments were deposited by Italy, too late for the 2009 European elections), 2 additional seats were assigned to France and were finally appointed by the French Parliament in 2011.
  2. ^ The 2 additional seats for the elections in 2014, previously appointed by the French Parliament, were finally assigned to the Île-de-France constituency as it was enlarged in 2014 to include also the votes for French citizens living abroad (and not registered for the European elections in another member state of the European Union).

References

  1. ^ Chloé Lourenço, Natacha Da Rocha (31 January 2019). "France: What electoral list for the European elections?". The New Federalist. Translated by Lorène Weber, Voix d’Europe, Wassila Zouag. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019.


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