French legislative election, 1962

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French legislative election took place on November 18 and 25, 1962 to elect the 2nd National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.

Since 1959 and the change of Algerian policy (Charles de Gaulle decided in favour of the "self-government" and "Algerian Algeria"), France faced to bomb attacks by the Secret Armed Organization (Organisation armée secrète or OAS) which supported "French Algeria" in spite of evrything. Nevertheless, in April 1962, Evian Agreement was approved by referendum. Algeria became an independent state.

In the same time, whrereas Georges Pompidou replaced Michel Debré as Prime minister, the center-right parties (MRP and CNIP) left the majority in due to de Gaulle's Eurosceptic declaration.

On August 22, de Gaulle ecaped from an attempt of murder by the OAS. In the general emotion, he announced a referendum about the presidential election by the universal suffrage. If the presidential majority composed of the UNR and the RI (which came from a CNIP split) campaigned for "yes", all the others parties formed a "coalition of no" and defeaed Pompidou's cabinet by a vote of no-confidence.

However, de Gaulle won the referendum and dissolved the National Assembly. If the left-wing opposition improved, the conservatives voters sanctioned the center-right parties and chose the presidential majority. Pompidou became prime minister again.

[edit] Results

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Parties and coalitions		Abbr.	Votes (1st round)	% (1st round)	Seats (2nd round)
	Union for the New Republic/ Democratic Union of Labour (Union pour la nouvelle République/ Union démocratique du travail)	UNR/ UDT	5 855 744	31.9	229
	Popular Republican Movement (Mouvement républicain populaire)	MRP	1 665 695	9.1	36
	National Center of Independent and Peasants (Centre national des indépendants et paysans)	CNIP	1 404 177	7.7	28
	Independent Republicans (Républicains indépendants)	RI	1 089 348	5.9	20
	Total Right ("Presidential Majority", MRP and CNIP)		10 014 964	54.6	313
	French Communist Party (Parti communiste français)	PCF	4 003 553	21.8	41
	French Section of the Workers International (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière)	SFIO	2 298 729	12.5	65
	Radical Party (Parti radical)	PR	1 429 649	7.8	44
	Unified Socialist Party (Parti socialiste unifié)	PSU	427 467	2.3	2
	Total Left		8 159 398	44.5	152
	Far-Right		159 429	0.9	-
	Total		18 33 791	100	465
Abstention: 31.3% (1st round); 27.9% (2nd round)