French presidential elections under the Fifth Republic May. French presidential elections under the Fifth Republic There have been eleven presidential elections in France since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Originally the president was elected by the Collège des Notables (an assembly of "notable electors") that included around 80,000 county and city/town councillors (who had been elected locally). Following the 1962 de Gaulle's constitutional reform (the constitutional Act of November 6, 1962) the president has been directly elected by the people of France. Until the French constitutional revision of September 24, 2000, the president had been elected for a seven-year term. Under this revision the
Presidential elections in France 1875, the President was elected by an absolute majority of votes by the two houses of the Parliament assembled at the National Assembly. There were two presidential elections in France during the republican government known as the Fourth Republic (1946—1958). They were held in 1947 and 1953. The president was elected by the Congress of the French Parliament, a joint meeting of both houses of the French Parliament (the National Assembly and the Senate). There have been 11 presidential elections in France since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Originally the president was elected by the Collège des