participation reached 19.81% at noon, a very slight increase of 0.55 points compared to 2019

Some 49.5 million voters are called to the polls to elect the 81 French deputies to the European Parliament.

At midday, Sunday June 9, participation in the 2024 European elections showed a very slight increase compared to the last election, with 19.81% at midday, according to official figures from the Ministry of the Interior. In 2019, at the same time, 19.26% of voters had already gone to the polls, compared to 15.7% in 2014, a year marked by a strong abstention at the end of the day (57.57%). In total, 49.5 million people are called to the polls this year, according to the latest figures from INSEE.

The next participation figures will be communicated at 5 p.m. In 2019, it had reached 43.29% at this time, a level higher than 2014 (35.07%). At the end of the election, in 2019, participation had painfully exceeded 50% (50.12%), a threshold which had not been reached in the three previous elections.

Among the heads of the list, Marion Maréchal, candidate for the Reconquête party, visited her office in Hauts-de-Seine early on Sunday morning. Valérie Hayer, Renaissance candidate, voted in Laval (Mayenne) mid-morning, while the environmentalist candidate, Marie Toussaint, went to a polling station in Bordeaux. François-Xavier Bellamy, head of the Republican list, voted in Versailles. The socialist candidate, Raphaël Glucksmann also voted mid-morning in Paris. Finally, Jordan Bardella, head of the National Rally list, and Manon Aubry, La France insoumise candidate, voted at the end of the morning, respectively in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine) and Paris.