They will replay the match of 2017. The outgoing president, Emmanuel Macron, will again face the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, in the second round of the presidential election. The Head of State won first place in the first round, Sunday April 10, with 28.5% of the vote – against 24.01% in 2017 -, more than five points ahead of his main competitor, who obtained 23.6% of the vote – compared to 21.3% in 2017 –, according to an Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimate for France Télévisions, Radio France, France24/RFI/MCD, Public Sénat/LCP Assemblée Nationale and Le Parisien-Today in France.
>> Follow in our direct the results of the first round, marked by a strong abstention
Fourth in 2012 and 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon climbs this time on the third step of the podium, but once again fails to qualify for the second round, despite the good momentum at the end of the campaign. The candidate of La France insoumise harvests 20.3% votes, better than in 2017 (19.58%).
Very far behind him, the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour comes in fourth position. With 7% of the vote, Marine Le Pen’s rival ends up well below his initial ambitions. He is followed by the Republican candidate, Valérie Pécresse, who collects only 4.8% votes, very far from the result obtained by the party candidate, François Fillon, in 2017 (20.01%). This is the worst score for the traditional right-wing party under the Fifth Republic.
The environmental candidate, Yannick Jadot, obtained 4.3% of the vote, a score far removed from the claims of the environmentalists at the start of the campaign. His call to ignore the “useful vote” on the left in favor of Jean-Luc Mélenchon was not heard. Impossible, however, to compare this result to that of 2017 since the ecologists had lined up behind the candidate of the Socialist Party, Benoît Hamon.
On the side of the PS, precisely, the announced rout did indeed take place: with only 2% of the vote (compared to 6.36% for Benoît Hamon in 2017), the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is dragging the Socialist Party into a deep crisis. . “At the end of this first round, the results like the abstention testify to a divided France and an extreme right at the gates of power, she reacted. So, so that France does not fall into the fight of all against all, I call on you to vote against the far right. using the Emmanuel Macron ballot. (…) This choice in no way erases my convictions as a woman on the left.”
Anne Hidalgo is preceded by the communist candidate, Fabien Roussel (2.6%), who also arrives below the fateful bar of 5%, which allows him to be reimbursed for his campaign expenses.
In front of them, the surprise of the evening comes from the deputy of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Jean Lassalle who, with 3.2% of the vote, triples his score of 2017 (1.21%). Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Debout la République) does him twice as well as in 2017 (4.70%) since he totals 2.2% voices. The two Trotskyist candidates close the ball: Philippe Poutou obtains 0.8% and Nathalie Arthaud 0.7%.
This first round of the presidential election was also marked by significant abstention, at 26%, nearly four points more than in 2017 (22.2%). However, it does not beat the record of April 21, 2002, which saw Jean-Marine Le Pen qualify against Jacques Chirac.