For the second round of the presidential election, this Sunday, April 24, 48 million people are registered on the electoral lists in France. In La Manche, 385,000 voters are called to vote. But not everyone will go to the polls. Since 2007, the rate of abstention does not stop increasing in the department, as in the rest of the country.
In the first round of the presidential election, Sunday April 10, 24.3% of Mancho voters did not go to the polls. Six points more than in the first round of voting in 2017, where abstention reached 18.5%. A figure that has been increasing since 2007 in our department.
The election that nevertheless mobilizes the French the most
In 2012, 16.7% of voters did not come to vote. In 2007, the abstention rate reached 14.3%. We are not yet at the record level that we experienced here in La Manche in the second round of the presidential election in 2002: 26.3% of voters had not voted. However, it is the ballot that mobilizes the French the most. Let us remember the disaster of the departmental and regional elections of 2021 where more than two-thirds of Manchois did not turn out to vote.
The first participation figures should be known this Sunday from 12 p.m., then at 5 p.m. and finally the results of the ballot will be at 8 p.m.