Election after election, she wins votes… With 53.77% of voters who did not vote, abstention is once again at a high level for this second round of legislative elections, but not record (57.36% voters had not moved to the second round, in the same ballot, in 2017). In the first round, the abstention rate reached 52.49% of the vote. This Sunday, in certain constituencies, more than 8 out of ten French people did not vote.
Apart from the French living abroad, it is in the 4th constituency of Guadeloupe that the highest rate of abstention is recorded: 81.69%. As during the first round and the presidential election, it is overseas and in particular in the Antilles that we see the fewest voters in the polling stations. Except in Wallis and Futuna. Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, this small overseas territory broke a record like last Sunday: that of the lowest rate of abstention (21.54%).
The 11th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis – in which Nupes Clémentine Autain was elected – recorded the highest abstention rate in mainland France, with 77.1% of voters who did not vote. In front of the 4th district of the same department (74.99%). It’s no coincidence: they were alone, their competitor having withdrawn for the second round. In the 7th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône – the one bringing together the working-class neighborhoods of Marseille in particular – abstention reached 71.11% of voters. In mainland France, it was the 3rd constituency of Dordogne that voted the most, with an abstention rate of “only” 39.55%, followed by the 11th constituency of Paris (39.91%) and the second constituency of Batch (40.74%).
An abstention that differs according to the duels
Abstention therefore differs according to the constituencies, but also according to the duel on the bill. In the 271 constituencies where candidates from Together and the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) clashed, abstention was around 52.48%. It increases when comes the question of deciding between Together and the National Rally (54.13% out of 108 constituencies) and between the Nupes and the National Rally (54.33% out of 59 constituencies).
As in the first round, abstention jumped in the constituencies of French people living abroad. Thus, the outgoing Meyer Habib was re-elected this Sunday outgoing deputy of the 8th constituency of French people living abroad with 50.6% of the vote, but an abstention of 86.07%. Same thing in the 2nd and 9th constituencies abroad, where it reached 81.88% and 83.71%.