Average age, sex, profession: the new National Assembly in figures

Europe 1 with AFP 2:04 p.m., June 20, 2022, modified at 2:04 p.m., June 20, 2022

The National Assembly has a new face.

It is a little less feminine than in 2017, with some 39% of female deputies elected, 12 points more than in 2012, and more than triple than in 2002 when they barely represented 12%.

And its renewal is also weaker than five years ago, a little less than half deputies who already occupied a seat in the Palais-Bourbon during the previous legislature were re-elected.

Here are some figures on the face of the new hemicycle.

48.5 years old

The average age of the new National Assembly is 48.5 years, close to that observed at the end of the legislative elections of 2017 (48.8 years).

These elections were marked by a strong rejuvenation, with a five-year drop in the average age of MPs compared to 2012.

It is within the LR/UDI alliance that the average age is the highest (51.3 years).

Then follow the coalition Ensemble (49.7 years), then the RN and the Nupes (45.9 years).

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The two youngest deputies elected on Sunday are 21 years old: they are Tematai Le Gayic, a regionalist elected in the first constituency of French Polynesia, who becomes the youngest deputy in the history of the Fifth Republic.

And Louis Boyard, elected Nupes-LFI in the 3rd constituency of Val-de-Marne.

As for the oldest, it is José Gonzalez, 79, elected RN in the 10th district of Bouches-du-Rhône.

37.3% women

The new assembly is still far from parity, with 37.26% women.

With 215 women, against 224 elected in 2017, the hemicycle is a little less feminized than it was during the previous legislature (38.8%).

The latter had been marked by a record number of women in the National Assembly, where they were only 155 after the 2012 elections.

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It is within the LR/UDI alliance that women are proportionally the least present (28.07%) while they are the most present within Nupes (43.07%).

The percentage of women deputies is also 37.08% within the RN and 40.41% within the Ensemble.

Very present executives

From the point of view of socio-professional categories, civil service executives are the most represented (75 deputies), ahead of administrative and commercial company executives (66), the liberal professions (58), the intermediaries (55) and craftsmen, traders and entrepreneurs (49).

Less new

Among the 577 deputies elected, a little less than half (275) already occupied a seat in the Palais-Bourbon during the previous legislature.

175 MPs seeking re-election failed, including 65 eliminated in the first round and 100 defeated in the second.

In 2017, out of 345 deputies running for re-election, only 140 won.

The legislature had thus been marked by strong renewal.