[2] A bill creating a single national constituency was approved by the National Assembly in a vote on the first reading on 20 February 2018,[3] and the Senate officially adopted the bill on 23 May 2018,[4] which was promulgated on 25 June after its validation by the Constitutional Council.

[8] The table shows the detailed composition of the French seats at the European Parliament as of 13 February 2024.

In France, candidator.fr allows users to find the list leader who best matches their convictions through 16 questions that position the respondent and candidates on 4 axes: environmental progressivism vs environmental conservatism, migration protectionism vs migration altruism, European federalism vs nationalism, egalitarianism vs capitalism.

About one hour after results for the European Parliament election showed that his Renaissance party would place a distant second to National Rally, Emmanuel Macron called for the dissolution of parliament and snap legislative elections occurring in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July.

He decried the results of the election as indicating the rise of nationalists and far-right political firebrands that would threaten France and Europe, who represented the "impoverishment of the French people and the downfall of our country".