FRENCH REPUBLIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF APRIL-MAY 1988 ================================================================== Parties ------------------------------------------------------------------ * FN - Front Nationale (National Front) * PCF - Parti Communiste Francaise (French Communist Party) * PS - Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party) * RPR - Rassemblement Pour la Republique (Rally for the Republic) * UDF - Union pour la Democratie Francaise (Union for French Democracy) First Round: 24 April 1988 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Voters: 38,179,118 Votes cast: 31,059,300 81.4 Invalid votes: 622,556 02.0 Valid votes: 30,436,744 98.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------ Raymond Barre UDF 5,035,144 16.5 Pierre Boussel 116,874 00.4 Jacques Chirac RPR 6,075,160 20.0 Pierre Juquin 639,133 02.1 Arlette Laguiller 606,201 02.0 Andre Lajoinie PCF 2,056,261 06.8 Jean-Marie Le Pen FN 4,376,742 14.4 François Mitterrand * PS 10,381,332 34.1 Antoine Waechter 1,149,897 03.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 30,436,744 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Second Round: 8 May 1988 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Voters: 38,039,196 Votes cast: 32,085,071 84.3 Invalid votes: 1,161,822 03.6 Valid votes: 30,923,249 96.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------ François MITTERRAND * PS 16,704,279 54.0 Jacques Chirac RPR 14,218,970 46.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 30,923,249 ------------------------------------------------------------------