Marine Le Pen, Mr Macron's far-right rival in the final round of the presidential election, has won a seat in parliament for the first time.
"Normally political parties allocate women seats that are nearly impossible to win, so they can say 'hey, we have as many female candidates as male, ' but at the end of the day they never end up winning", added Poirson, who has no prior parliamentary experience but has master's degrees in political science from both Harvard and the London School of Economics. Melenchon, whose party was projected to win 25 to 30 seats, denounced Macron's planned labor reforms that would make it easier to hire and fire French workers, calling them a "social coup d'etat" that he would fight.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated French President Emmanuel Macron on his La Republique En Marche (REM) party on gaining absolute majority in the National Assembly, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said.
The ministry said the far-right National Front was in third place with almost 10 percent followed by the Socialists with 6.2 percent.
Turn-out was also thought to be down.
The overall results will be a huge disappointment for the nationalist and anti-EU party which had once hoped to emerge as the main opposition in parliament to Macron's centrist party. He said the Socialist party needed to change its ideas and its organization and that a "collective leadership" would replace him.
This victory for the LREM - a movement launched by Macron less than a year ago, and fielding a team of political novices - is being viewed as a slap for mainstream French parties.
The election was the fourth in less than two months which resulted in a historically low voter turnout.
With 75 percent of the votes counted Sunday night, Macron's party won 42 percent of the vote, followed by the conservative Republicans with 22 percent.
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The scale of the change is forecast to be so large that some observers have compared the overhaul to 1958, the start of the present presidential system, or even the post-war rebirth of French democracy in 1945. That was less than some had expected after its crushing victory in last week's first-round vote.
Melenchon highlighted the record low turnout, saying: "The French people is now engaged in a sort of civic general strike".
Pollsters predict that pro-Macron candidates - who only got together after his May 7 presidential win - could take up to 450 seats in parliament.
This is well down from 46.42 percent seen in the 2012 election and 40.75 percent in the first round of voting in these legislative elections on June 11.
REM won 32 percent of the votes cast in the first round, but this represented only about 15 percent of registered voters.
The party's leader, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, immediately stood down.
As of late Sunday evening there were 156 women lawmakers elected to France's National Assembly, already more than ever before, and with 148 seats as yet undecided.
The conservative Republicans and its allies are set to form the largest opposition block with 97 to 133 seats.
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