On June 18, France held run-off elections for the National Assembly. The first round had been a week ago. Here is a news story with the results. The President’s party, La Republique En Marche, which was running in its first election ever, apparently won 355 of the 577 seats.
It’s amazing how poorly the left wing parties are doing in France.
Not amazing at all. France is a plurality voting country, so you’ll see huge exaggerations in the totals like all plurality elections.
Some political groups will be much smaller and big ones are outrageously huge.
My interpretation is that the big winner, “Workers on the March!” Party, is using the unity any multi-party rhetoric but since the elections are not pure proportional representation, but they are not specifically calling for pure proportional representation.
Many French-speaking countries that are former colonies in Africa have similar problems which is bad news for environmentalists and conservationalists.
@james Ogle: Still, just considering their percentage of the votes, the Socialists and Communists have dropped a lot.
To be clear, all plurality systems can make them look much lower, in exaggeration to how much bigger the vote totals we in fact cast for them in each single-winner district.
In sum, the results being shown, are not truly proportional to the true number of votes cast.