FRENCH REPUBLIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF JUNE 1969 ================================================================== Parties ------------------------------------------------------------------ * PCF - Parti Communiste Francaise (French Communist Party) * PSU - Parti Socialiste Unifie (United Socialist Party) * SFIO - Section Francaise de l'Internationale Ouviere (French Section of the Workers' International) * UDR - Union des Democrates pour la Ve Republique (Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic) First Round: 1 June 1969 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Voters: 29,513,361 Votes cast: 22,899,034 77.6 Invalid votes: 295,036 01.3 Valid votes: 22,603,998 98.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaston Defferre SFIO 1,133,222 05.0 Louis Ducatel 286,447 01.3 Jacques Duclos PCF 4,808,285 21.3 Alain Krivine 239,106 01.1 Alain Poher 5,268,651 23.3 Georges Pompidou UDR 10,051,818 44.5 Michel Rocard PSU 816,471 03.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 22,603,998 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Second Round: 15 June 1969 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Voters: 29,500,334 Votes cast: 20,311,287 68.8 Invalid votes: 1,303,798 06.4 Valid votes: 19,007,489 93.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------ Alain Poher 7,943,118 41.8 Georges POMPIDOU UDR 11,064,371 58.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 19,007,489 ------------------------------------------------------------------