France's anti-immigrant National Front, whose leader Jean-Marie Le Pen shocked Europe by reaching the runoff round of last month's presidential election, failed to win any parliamentary seats on Sunday, an exit poll showed.
The former paratrooper's far-right party had qualified for Sunday's parliamentary runoffs in only 37 of France's 577 constituencies after a first round of the election a week ago. Centre-right supporters of President Jacques Chirac, who won a second term on May 5 by trouncing Le Pen by four votes to one, secured a big parliamentary majority to end five years of left-wing domination of the National Assembly lower house.

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