But he may face criticism over turnout; just under 45 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the election's second round, the lowest in modern French history.
The centrist party, La Republique En Marche, which was created previous year, clinched 361 seats out of 577 in the National Assembly, giving it an absolute majority following the final round of the parliamentary elections in France.
"(Macron's) En Marche (party). proactively made a decision to give winning seats to women", said 34-year-old Brune Poirson, who beat the far-right National Front to be elected in the Vaucluse district in southeastern France.
After Sunday's vote, the number of female lawmakers is the highest ever at France's lower house of parliament, reaching 38.7 percent - up from 26.8 percent in the outgoing Assembly. Macron won the French presidency last month without the support of a traditional mainstream party.
The prime minister, Édouard Philippe, resigned on Monday as required after a parliamentary poll.
Emmanuel Macron seems to be on a winning streak after his landmark electoral victory, now winning a clear majority in the parliament.
There was also a very high number of first-time MPs - around three quarters of the parliament seats went to people who had never sat in the National Assembly before.
His La République en Marche [LREM] party won an estimated 359 of the 577 seats in the National Assembly, some way short of predictions last week that forecast his fledging party could finish with as many as 450.
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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.
France's far left, however, fared better - the France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party of Jean-Luc Melenchon took 17 seats. His government is expected to pass its first set of measures during a special parliamentary session starting on June 27 - laws to strengthen security, improve ethics in politics and reform France's restrictive labor laws.
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According to BBC, the far-right Front National won only eight seats, but it had projected on 15.The FN leader Marine Le Pen won a seat in the National Assembly, for the first time, after four unsuccessful attempts.
The turnout represented "a collective failure" for France's political class, he said.
Jean-Claude Cambadélis, the socialist leader, has since announced his retirement, and said the left must "to change everything, its form and its substance, its ideas and its organisation".
REM routed the Socialists and heavily defeated the rightwing Republicans, while Le Pen's National Front (FN) had a disappointing night.
The far-right Front National, which now has two seats in parliament, was predicted to win up to eight seats, better than its first-round showing had indicated.
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