They fell on Monday, shortly after 1 p.m., the day after the vote. Time to wait for the results of the French voting abroad. Behind the hashtag “remontada”, the supporters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon wanted to believe it until the last minute, seeing the gap narrow between the candidate of rebellious France and that of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen. Without success. The final results of the first round of the presidential election validate Emmanuel Macron’s victory, well ahead of Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, confirming our estimates.
Emmanuel Macron thus obtained 9,785,578 votes, or 27.84% of all those cast. Marine Le Pen collects 8,136,369 (23.15%). The two candidates are therefore qualified for the second round, which will be played on April 24, after two weeks of campaigning and a long-awaited debate, scheduled for April 20. A scenario already seen in 2017 in which the outgoing president won with 66.1% of the vote against 33.9% for the candidate of the National Rally.
Third man in this first round, Jean-Luc Mélenchon obtained 7,714,949 votes, representing 21.95% of the votes cast. He is therefore 421,420 votes behind Marine Le Pen. Following behind, above the fateful 5% mark, Éric Zemmour with 7.07% of the vote (2,485,935 ballots in his favour).
Pécresse, Jadot and Hidalgo under 5%
The surprise comes from the side of the Republicans: its candidate Valérie Pécresse collects 1,679,470 votes, or 4.78% of the vote. By going below the 5% mark, only a tiny part of his campaign costs will be reimbursed. Candidate LR also launched a call for donations on Monday morning. This will also be the case for the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot with 4.63% of the vote (1,628,337 votes).
Jean Lassalle (3.13%), the communist candidate Fabien Roussel (2.28%) and that of Debout la France, Nicolas Dupont Aignan (2.06%) precede the mayor of Paris and socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo. The latter collected, at the end of the first round, only 616,651 votes, or 1.75% of the vote. Just ahead of Philippe Poutou (0.77%) and Nathalie Arthaud (0.56%).
543,638 blank votes were recorded throughout France, to which must be added 237,023 invalid votes. As for abstention, it therefore reached 26.31%.