European Parliament election, 1994 (France)

On 12 June 1994 the fourth direct 1994 European Parliament election, elections to the European Parliament were held in the France. Six lists were able to win seats: an alliance of the centre-right Union for French Democracy and the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party, the Left Radical Party, the French Communist Party, the National Front (France), National Front and Philippe de Villiers' eurosceptic right-wing dissident UDF list, which formed the ''Majorité pour l'autre Europe''. 53.5% of the French population voter turnout, turned out on election day, actually an improvement on the last election in 1989. The Greens (France), The Greens, who were weakened by an Ecology Generation list led by Brice Lalonde (winning 2.01%) and also suffering from internal divisions between the party's left (who wanted an electoral alliance with the Soécialists and the left) and the right (rejecting all alliances), lost all 9 seats won in 1989. Arlette Laguiller's Trotskyst Lutte ouvrière, Workers' Struggle (2.27%), Jean-Pierre Chevènement's left-wing eurosceptic Citizen and Republican Movement, Citizens' Movement (2.54%), the L'Europe commence à Sarajevo List (1.57%) and the agrarian populist Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions (3.96%) were among the notable lists which did not pass the 5% threshold.

With 14.49%, the Socialists, the party of President of France, President François Mitterrand, whose list was led by Michel Rocard suffered its worst result ever in a European election, losing votes mainly to the Radical list led by wealthy businessman and a protégé of Mitterrand, Bernard Tapie. Most analysts agreed that Mitterrand supported Tapie's list behind the scenes, since Rocard was a personal rival of Mitterrand and he wished to destroy Rocard's chances in the 1995 French presidential election, 1995 presidential election. In fact, Rocard resigned as First Secretary of the PS shortly thereafter and did not run in 1995 – Lionel Jospin was the Socialist candidate.

The other surprise was Philippe de Villiers success. Villiers, the President of the General Council of Vendée, was a eurosceptic member of the liberal component (Republican Party (France), PR) of the pro-European UDF. He won a surprisingly strong 12.34%, and his thirteen MEPs formed the nucleus of the Europe of Nations group. However, his success did not lead him to immediate political successes – he polled barely 4% in the 1995 French presidential election, 1995 presidential election.

Results

, style="text-align:center;" colspan="11" , 1989 European Parliament election in France, ← 1989 • 1994 • 1999 European Parliament election in France, 1999 →
, - style="text-align:right;"
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:400; text-align:left;" colspan="2" , National party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" , European party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" , Main candidate
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , %
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , +/–
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , Seats
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , +/–
, -
, width=5px style="background-color: ",
, style="text-align:left;" , Union for French Democracy (UDF) + Rally for the Republic (RPR)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Dominique Baudis
, style="text-align:right;" , 4,985,574
, style="text-align:right;" , 25.58
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 28
, style="text-align:right;" , 2
, -
, width=5px style="background-color: ",
, style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Michel Rocard
, style="text-align:right;" , 2,824,173
, style="text-align:right;" , 14.49
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 15
, style="text-align:right;" , 7
, -
, width=5px style="background-color: ",
, style="text-align:left;" , Majorité pour l'autre Europe, Union for French Democracy dissidents (UDF diss.)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Philippe de Villiers
, style="text-align:right;" , 2,404,105
, style="text-align:right;" , 12.34
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 13
, style="text-align:right;" , 6
, -
, style="background-color:#FFBF00;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Parti Radical de Gauche, Movement of Radicals of the Left (MRG)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Bernard Tapie
, style="text-align:right;" , 2,344,457
, style="text-align:right;" , 12.03
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 13
, style="text-align:right;" , 13
, -
, style="background-color:#0D378A;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , National Front (France), National Front (FN)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Jean-Marie Le Pen
, style="text-align:right;" , 2,050,086
, style="text-align:right;" , 10.52
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 11
, style="text-align:right;" , 1
, -
, style="background-color:#FF0000;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , French Communist Party, Communist Party (PCF)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Francis Wurtz
, style="text-align:right;" , 1,342,222
, style="text-align:right;" , 6.89
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 7
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, - style="border-top:2px solid gray;"
, style="background-color:#BDB76B;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions (CPNT)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , André Goustat
, style="text-align:right;" , 771,061
, style="text-align:right;" , 3.96
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, -
, width=5px style="background-color: ",
, style="text-align:left;" , The Greens (France), The Greens (VERTS)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Marie Anne Isler-Béguin
, style="text-align:right;" , 574,806
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.95
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, style="text-align:right;" , 9
, -
, width=5px style="background-color: ",
, style="text-align:left;" , Citizen and Republican Movement, Citizens' Movement (MDC) & other left-wing parties
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Jean-Pierre Chevènement
, style="text-align:right;" , 494.986
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.54
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, -
, width=5px style="background-color: ",
, style="text-align:left;" , Lutte Ouvrière (France), Workers' Struggle (LO)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Arlette Laguiller
, style="text-align:right;" , 442,723
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.27
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, -
, width=5px style="background-color: ",
, style="text-align:left;" , Ecology Generation (GE)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Brice Lalonde
, style="text-align:right;" , 392,291
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.01
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" , Europe Begins in Sarajevo
, style="text-align:left;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Léon Schwartzenberg
, style="text-align:right;" , 305,633
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.57
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 , Others (parties and candidates that won less than 1% of the ''national'' vote and no seats)
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" ,
, style="text-align:right;" , —
, style="text-align:right;" , 0
, style="text-align:right;" , —

, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
, style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Valid votes
, 19,487,470 , , 94.67
, colspan="4" rowspan="2" ,
, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
, style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Blank and invalid votes
, 1,097,510 , , 5.33
, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
, style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Totals
, 20,584,980 , , 100.00 , , — , , 87 , , 6
, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
, colspan="4" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout
, 39,019,797 , , 52.76 , , 3.96
, colspan="2",

Members elected

UDF – RPR

*Dominique Baudis
*Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
*Yves Galland
*Christian Jacob (French politician), Christian Jacob
*Jean-Pierre Raffarin
*Armelle Guinebertiére
*Nicole Fontaine
*Alain Pompidou
*Yves Verwaerde
*Marie-Thérèse Hermange
*Jean-Louis Bourlanges
*Jacques Donnay
*Françoise Grossetête
*Blaise Aldo
*Robert Hersant
*Anne-Marie Schaffner
*Francis Decourrière
*Christian Cabrol
*Bernard Stasi
*Jean-Claude Pasty
*André Soulier
*Jean-Pierre Bazin
*Pierre Bernard-Reymond
*Raymond Chesa
*Georges de Brémond d'Ars
*Jean Baggioni
*Jean-Pierre Bebear
*Gérard d'Aboville

PS

*Michel Rocard
*Catherine Trautmann
*Bernard Kouchner
*Danielle Darras
*André Laignel
*Nicole Pery
*Jack Lang (French politician), Jack Lang
*Frédérique Bredin
*Pierre Moscovici
*Élisabeth Guigou
*Jean-Pierre Cot
*Pervenche Berès
*François Bernardini
*Michèle Lindeperg
*Gérard Caudron

UDF dissidents

*Philippe de Villiers
*James Goldsmith
*Charles de Gaulle (born 1948), Charles de Gaulle
*Thierry Jean-Pierre
*Philippe-Armand Martin
*Françoise Seillier
*Georges Berthu
*Hervé Fabre-Aubrespy
*Dominique Souchet
*Anne Christine Poisson
*Frédéric Striby
*Edouard Des Places
*Marie-France de Rose

PRG

*Bernard Tapie
*Jean-François Hory
*Catherine Lalumière
*Christiane Taubira, Christiane Taubira-Delannon
*Noël Mamère
*Michel Dary
*André Sainjon
*Bernard Castagnède
*Odile Leperre-Verrier
*Pierre Pradier (politician), Pierre Pradier
*Christine Barthet-Mayer
*Dominique Saint-Pierre
*Antoinette Fouque

FN

*Jean-Marie Le Pen
*Bruno Mégret
*Bruno Gollnisch
*Jean-Claude Martinez
*Carl Lang
*Marie-France Stirbois
*Bernard Antony
*Yvan Blot
*Jean-Marie Le Chevallier
*Fernand Le Rachinel
*Jean-Yves Le Gallou

PCF

*Francis Wurtz
*Sylviane Ainardi
*Philippe Herzog
*Gisèle Moreau
*René Piquet
*Mireille Elmalan
*Aline PaillerÉlections européennes 1994
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References

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