A new left-wing alliance won the most seats in France's snap elections, but did not secure an absolute majority. As the National Assembly prepares to convene for the first time on 18 July, what will the lower chamber look like?
Three main blocs emerged from the snap election runoff on 7 July: left, centrist and far right.
While the left-green New Popular Front (NFP) alliance came out on top with 182 seats, Macron's centrist Ensemble! (Together) coalition came close behind on 168, and the far-right, anti-immigration National Rally (RN) and its allies secured 143.
The final numbers could vary slightly with individual MPs choosing to join different groupings before the Assembly's opening session on 18 July.
But so far the picture is as follows:
Breakdown by party
The largest group – NFP – is made up of the hard-left France Unbowed, the Socialists, Communists and Greens.
France Unbowed has 75 seats, the Socialists 65, Greens 33 and Communists nine.
It means that France Unbowed has less weight than before, the other three parties, notably the Socialists, having performed better in these elections than in the last polls of 2022.
President Macron’s Ensemble! coalition has 168 seats, 80 fewer than in the previous Assembly.
His own Renaissance party won 99 seats, the centrist Modem 33, Horizons – a centre-right movement created by former prime minister Edouard Philippe – won six, and other unaffiliated centrists have five.
The far-right RN won 126 seats, 38 more than in 2022, making it the largest single party to sit in the lower house.
Its ally LR-RN, a breakaway bloc of the conservative Republicans (LR) party, won 17 seats, bringing the combined score for RN and its allies to 143.
The main LR faction won 39 seats. When their allies UDI (three) and unaffiliated right (27) are added on, it gives France's mainstream conservative bloc 68 seats, similar to the previous Assembly.
Breakdown by geography
RN did well in rural areas and particularly in the formerly industrial north and east of France, in the south-east and on the Mediterranean coast.
Left-wing MPs won big in urban areas, with more than 40 percent of NFP lawmakers from France's 10 largest cities.
All the MPs returned in Lyon, Nantes and Strasbourg are from the left.
NFP won 12 out of the 18 seats in the capital; the other six went to Ensemble, which also also secured a constituency in Bordeaux, Toulouse, and two in Lille.
RN won just seven seats in urban areas and all were in the south-east – three in Nice, three in Marseille and one in Montpellier.
Breakdown by gender, age, profession
Le Monde has crunched the numbers regarding the new Assembly's sociological profile.
It's less female than before. Only 208 out of the 577 MPs are women – 36 percent – down from 37.3 percent in 22.
NFP has the highest number of female MPs – 41.7 percent, with Ensemble! on 38.7 percent and both RN and LR on 32.2 percent.
Some 74 percent of the MPs who have kept other jobs are managers or professionals – a socio-professional category to which just 21 percent of France's working population belong.
The average age of MPs is 49 years and two months, only six months older than the previous Assembly. The oldest deputy is 81 and the youngest 22. Both are from the RN.
In line with tradition, the eldest, José Gonzalez, will chair the Assembly's opening session on 18 July when the president of the house – the equivalent of a speaker – will be elected.
