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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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European Parliament elections were held in France on 13 June 1999. Once again,abstention was very high for this type of election- only 47% of eligible voters voted. The election was also the first French European election to be won by theSocialist Party (PS).
In a major surprise and historical upset for the government,Charles Pasqua's andPhilippe de Villiers' list uniting Pasqua's newGaullistRally for France (RPF) and de Villiers'euroscepticMovement for France (MPF) list surpassed the list of PresidentJacques Chirac'sRPR-Liberal Democracy, led byNicolas Sarkozy. The election ended Sarkozy's immediate political future, including a run for the presidency of the Rally for the Republic –Michèle Alliot-Marie, a close supporter of Chirac, succeeded him. However, the alliance between Pasqua and de Villiers proved to be ephemeral. de Villiers broke with Pasqua later 2000 and thus ended the RPF's chance to become a large common party for all euroscepticGaullists from within the RPR.
The NewUnion for French Democracy (Nouvelle UDF), led byFrançois Bayrou ran independently of the RPR, contrary to Chirac's wishes, for the first time since 1984. Bayrou won a relatively good result, 9.28%, allowing him to pursue his more independent political strategy (slowly distancing the party from the RPR) within the New UDF.
The other winner of the election wereThe Greens led by Franco-German green politicianDaniel Cohn-Bendit, whose list won 9.72%, the party's second-best result after 1989.
Minor parties, including the agrarian populistHunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions and the far-leftWorkers' Struggle obtained very good results and elected 6 and 5MEP's respectively.
The far-rightFN was penalized byBruno Megret's dissidentMNR list and obtained a low result. TheFrench Communist Party also did poorly.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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| PS–MDC–PRG | 3,874,231 | 21.95 | 22 | –6 | |
| Rally for France–Movement for France | 2,304,544 | 13.06 | 13 | 0 | |
| Rally for the Republic–Liberal Democracy | 2,263,201 | 12.82 | 12 | –2 | |
| The Greens | 1,715,729 | 9.72 | 9 | +9 | |
| Union for French Democracy | 1,638,999 | 9.29 | 9 | –5 | |
| French Communist Party | 1,196,491 | 6.78 | 6 | –1 | |
| Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions | 1,195,863 | 6.78 | 6 | +6 | |
| National Front | 1,005,285 | 5.70 | 5 | –6 | |
| Lutte Ouvrière–Revolutionary Communist League | 914,811 | 5.18 | 5 | +5 | |
| National Republican Movement | 578,837 | 3.28 | 0 | New | |
| Less Taxes Now! | 312,450 | 1.77 | 0 | New | |
| Independent Ecological Movement | 268,038 | 1.52 | 0 | New | |
| Fight for Jobs | 178,064 | 1.01 | 0 | New | |
| Living Energy–France | 124,561 | 0.71 | 0 | New | |
| Natural Law Party | 71,409 | 0.40 | 0 | 0 | |
| Humanist Party | 1,995 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Martiniquean Liberal Movement | 1,707 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Nationalist League | 683 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Life Policy for Europe | 274 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Federalist Party | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 17,647,172 | 100.00 | 87 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 17,647,172 | 94.04 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,118,983 | 5.96 | |||
| Total votes | 18,766,155 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 40,132,517 | 46.76 | |||
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