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Gaullism Mark II: the Elections of 1973

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

René de Lacharrière
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GENERAL ELECTIONS WERE HELD IN FRANCE ON 4 AND 11 MARCH 1973 for the renewal of the National Assembly which had been elected in June 1968. The interesting fact about them was that the public opinion polls had forecast some weeks before the date set for the elections that there was a very real possibility of a victory for the alliance concluded between the united socialists and communists, and some left-wing radicals, on a common platform of reforms and of government. This socialist-communist coalition did not, in fact, win, but the majority party's share fell from 372 to 275 seats, out of 487, while the total number of votes cast for it was less than that cast for the left.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1973 , pp. 280 - 289
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1973

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1 These coalitions presented themselves under the joint ticket URP (Union des Républicains de Progrès). The real Gaullist Party, the UDR (Union des Démocrates pour la République) had called itself the UDVe (Union des Démocrates pour la Ve République in the elections of 1967 and 1968.