| 1 | Half of the new legislative seats would be directly elected. | |
| 2 | The Conservatives won the seat (ie in Parliament) from Labour at the last election. | |
| 3 | A new French law requires listed firms to reserve 40% of board seats for women by 2017. | |
| 4 | Proportional representation gives all parties a fair share of seats based on the percentage of the vote each gets. | |
| 5 | The party which wins the second largest number of seats becomes theOfficial Opposition, with its own leader and "shadow cabinet ". |