|| 0.00 |- | style="background-color:#404040;"| | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Far-right | EXD | 102,124 || 0.39 || 0 | – || – || – | 0 || 0.00 |- | colspan="12" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- style="font-weight:bold;" | style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Total | 26,026,465 || 100.00 || 110 | 20,406,454 || 100.00 || 467 | 577 || 100.00 |- | colspan="12" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"| Valid votes | || | rowspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| | || | rowspan="5" colspan="3" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"| Spoilt and null votes | || | || |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"| Votes cast / turnout | || | || |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"| Abstentions | || | || |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"| Registered voters | | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| | | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- | colspan="12" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- | colspan="12" style="text-align:left;"| Source: Official Voting Results: Ministry of the Interior |} Contrary to the polls, the UMP lost ground, but it maintained a workable majority. The Socialists unexpectedly gained seats. Their plea to voters to prevent an overwhelming UMP dominance of the legislature appears to have paid off, providing the Socialists with a measure of redemption from the election loss. UDF splinter groups, François Bayrou's MoDem and the New Centre, contested their first elections. MoDem won 4 seats (including Mayotte regionalist Abdoulatifou Aly), while the New Centre was able to form a parliamentary group, with 22 seats. It remains to be seen whether Bayrou's party, which polled the third highest vote (7.61% in round one), will develop into a major political force. Their result is an improvement on the UDF's result of 4.9% in 2002. The National Front (FN) polled its lowest vote since its splash onto the political scene in 1986. The FN lost more than 60% of its support base since 2002. Support for the Communist Party also declined, and they saw a loss of several seats, whilst several other left-wing parties won nine new seats. The Greens gained one new seat, despite a fall in their vote. One of the most stunning results was the surprise defeat of UMP party leader Alain Juppé by the Socialist Party candidate Michèle Delaunay. Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres was defeated as well losing to Socialist Party candidate Jean-Patrick Gille. The far right did not win any seats. Change since 2002 *Both formed from a split of the UDF, a traditionally centre-right party, in early 2007. The MoDems pursued a path of independence from the