Legislative elections were held in France on 16 March 1986 to elect the eighth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. Contrary to other legislative ...

The bicameral Parliament of France is made up of the Senate and the National Assembly. Senate. The Senate comprises 318 members*; they are indirectly elected ...

The result was, on the face of it, dramatic: the Socialist Party, in power since 1981, when Francois Mitterrand won the presidency and his party won a general ...

' Wayne Northcutt. Election results are sometimes misleading, especially in multi-party political systems like France. In the twelve- ...

See Wayne Northcutt, FrancoisMitterrand: A Political Biography (forthcoming full-length biography of the French president). Les elections', Pouvoirs 38, 146 ...

Regional elections were held in France on 16 March 1986. These were the first regional elections in France. French left-wing parties promised the ...

THE system of proportional representation introduced for the 1986 parliamentary elections in France (and the Regional Council elections.

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The purpose of this article is to build a model that explains and forecasts the result of the firstround vote of the French legislative elections.

Contrary to other legislative elections of the Fifth Republic, the electoral system used was that of party-list proportional representation. thumbnail. Property ...