FRENCH REPUBLIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF DECEMBER 1965 ================================================================== Parties ------------------------------------------------------------------ * MRP - Movement Republicain Populaire (Popular Republican Movement) * SFIO - Section Francaise de l'Internationale Ouviere (French Section of the Workers' International) * UNR - Union pour la Nouvelle Republique (Union for the New Republic First Round: 5 December 1965 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Voters: 28,913,402 Votes cast: 24,502,957 84.7 Invalid votes: 248,423 01.0 Valid votes: 24,254,534 99.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michel Barbu 279,663 01.2 Charles De Gaulle UNR 10,828,523 44.6 Jean Lecanuet MRP 3,777,119 15.6 Pierre Marcilhacy 415,018 01.7 Francois Mitterrand SFIO 7,694,003 31.7 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancourt 1,260,208 05.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 24,254,534 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Second Round: 19 December 1965 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Voters: 28,920,704 Votes cast: 24,371,647 84.3 Invalid votes: 668,213 02.7 Valid votes: 23,703,434 97.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------ Charles DE GAULLE UNR 13,083,699 55.2 Francois Mitterrand SFIO 10,619,735 44.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 23,703,434 ------------------------------------------------------------------