nine days before the second round, Emmanuel Macron widens the gap slightly with Marine Le Pen, according to our survey

franceinfo would like to remind you that a poll is not a prediction, but a snapshot of public opinion at a given moment. A survey is necessarily accompanied by a margin of error, also called “margin of uncertainty” or “confidence interval”. The smaller the sample, the greater the margin of error. For more details, here is everything you need to know to decipher the polls.


Emmanuel Macron is leading the voting intentions in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, according to our Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll for franceinfo and Le Parisien-Today in France, published Friday, April 15. Before the election deadline of April 24, this poll is updated daily according to the evolution of opinion.

The distance duel between the two finalists does not move the lines for the moment. Up one point from April 14, Emmanuel Macron, president and candidate for re-election, is credited with 56% of voting intentions in the second round, against 44% for Marine Le Pen, his competitor from the National Rally (RN ). The margin of error is 3.4 points.

If we examine the carryover of votes between the two rounds, 28% of voters for Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France insoumise), who came third in the first round, indicate that the candidate for whom they are most likely to vote in the second round is Emmanuel Macron. They were 33% during the previous measurement. They are 16% (-2 points) to consider turning to Marine Le Pen and 56% do not express a choice: it is 7 points more compared to the previous measurement.

No change on the side of the voters of Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!). As on April 14, they are 9% to indicate that the candidate for whom they are most likely to vote in the second round is Emmanuel Macron, against 78% for Marine Le Pen. They were only 4% to consider voting for the outgoing president during the previous measurement. 13% express no choice.

Among the voters of Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts), the undecided are more numerous: 33% do not express a choice, they were 27% during the last measurement. 56% of Yannick Jadot voters indicate that the candidate for whom they are most likely to vote in the second round is Emmanuel Macron (-5 points), against 11% for Marine Le Pen (-1 point).

Some of the voters of Valérie Pécresse (Les Républicains) in the first round still seem to hesitate: 27% did not express a choice (-9 points compared to the previous measurement) and if they indicate that the candidate for whom they the most likely to vote in the second round is Emmanuel Macron at 55%, they are 18% (+2 points) to consider voting Marine Le Pen.

Nine days before the second ballot, 71% of French people questioned are sure that they will vote (range: between 69 and 73%). A figure slightly lower than the effective participation rate during the second round of the 2017 presidential election (74.6%). Of those who are certain to vote, 85% say they have made their choice and that it will be final, while 15% believe that their vote can still change.

Few of Emmanuel Macron’s voters have doubts: 91% say their choice is final, only 9% recognize that they can still change their minds. For Marine Le Pen, the convinced are 88%, the undecided are 12%. Among those who intend to come on April 24 to vote blank or null, 59% are determined while 41% can still change their minds.

Methodology. This barometer is produced for franceinfo and Le Parisien-Today in France until the second round of the presidential election and is based on the methodology of the “rolling poll”, or rolling poll. Every day, about 500 people registered on the electoral lists are questioned. The results published on a daily basis systematically report the last three samples questioned, to obtain a reconstituted sample of approximately 1,500 people.

This Ipsos-Sopra Steria survey for franceinfo and Le Parisien-Today in France published on April 15 is based on a total sample of 1,674 people registered on the electoral lists, constituting a representative sample of the French population aged 18 and over. The results presented show the accumulation of the interviews carried out over the last three days. The sample was questioned by Internet and was constituted according to the method of quotas (sex, age, profession of the person questioned, category of agglomeration, region).


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