2023 Angevin general election (Le Roi Éternel)

The 2023 Angevin general election was held on 4 and 11 May 2023 to elect the 940 members of the 44th Common Assembly of Angers. The first round was held in concurrence with the 2023 Angevin presidential election, in which incumbent Minister-President Jérôme Moseley of the Popular Union Party was defeated by Liberal Party candidate Emmanuel Macron.

The election saw the Liberal Party return as the largest party in the Assembly, having been ousted five years prior by the Popular Union Party, but without any party winning the necessary 470 seats to achieve a majority. Whilst the Liberals saw only a modest increase in their vote share, the PUP experienced a massive fall in support, that experts have attributed to apathy amongst their base as a result of various scandals and mistakes by Moseley's administration. In the election campaign, Macron's campaign emphasised a return to sensible and competent government, highlighting the Moseley administration's poor handling of the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing industrial disputes. The legacy of the resignations of two of the administration's Prime Ministers, François Fillon in the "Pennygate" affair and Alexandre de Pfeffel in the "Partygate" scandal, are also thought to have contributed heavily to the PUP's image of being unfit for government.

The Communist Party, before the election the third-largest party in the Assembly, suffered major reversals, losing seats in France to the Social Democrat Party and in England to the English Liberation Movement, who targeted their traditional strongholds in the North Midlands industrial belt. ELM, under new leader Douglas Carswell, won their best ever result in a general election, more-than doubling their previous record in 2008 to 43, over 10% of all the seats in England. The Celtic Alliance, who in 2013 had been displaced in Ireland by Sinn Féin, failed to make any meaningful comeback against the latter, having won a single seat from them in 2018. Instead they lost two Irish seats, prompting their leader David Tennant to resign. SF's own leader Seosamh Ui Bhiodáin, who had previously faced calls to resign over his age, also stepped down after this election. Despite much media attention, the far-right party Reconquête, which had campaigned for French independence and an Angevin divorce, failed to win a single seat despite winning over 2 million votes.

In the election's aftermath, Macron announced the establishment of a confidence-and-supply agreement with the Social Democrats, bringing his bloc within the Common Assembly to 467, 3 seats short of an outright majority. Having seen his party's share of seats halved, Communist Party leader Jean McDonnell resigned, triggering a leadership election that would be won by his predecessor in the role Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Pénélope Mordagne also faced calls to resign, culminating in a no-confidence motion against her that she would only narrowly win, leading to her resignation on 2 June and a leadership election for the PUP.