Just like in the U.S., when it comes to the House of representatives, what matters is how many districts a party wins, not the national total of votes for the party. When it comes to our legislatures, we don’t vote for an elect a party and then let the party with the most votes assign a majority of the legislative seats. France is no different other than having “second round” votes after no 50% plus majority. What is interesting about the last point is a second round is forced when the first round does not give a mjority of seats to a party, yet sometimes there is still no majority with the second round, but somone gets to try to form a government anyway. Kinda does not make sense, to me.
It is crazy