With 215 elected, women will only represent 37.3% of parliamentarians in the Assembly. However, parity had been steadily increasing for nearly 35 years.
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This is a first for almost 35 years: there will be fewer women deputies than during the previous mandate. Some 215 women were elected to the National Assembly on Sunday June 19, the evening of the second round of legislative elections, 13 less than five years ago. The share of women therefore fell slightly, from 38.8% to 37.3%.
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The last fifteen years had however seen women entering the National Assembly in large numbers. Between 2002 and 2017, the number of women tripled, from 12.3% to 38.8%. Despite everything, France remained far from parity.
As in 2017, Les Républicains are bad students, with less than 30% of female deputies in the ranks of the right-wing party. Conversely, it is the left alliance, the Nupes, which comes closest to parity with 43.6% of women among its elected representatives. The Macronist coalition and the National Rally will have 40.4% and 37.1% of women respectively in the Hemicycle. Five years ago, La République en Marche was much closer to parity, with 46% of women elected.