If, officially, the results of the first round of the presidential election in the overseas departments and territories could not be communicated until 8 p.m. this Sunday, they were completed overnight from Saturday to Sunday, after a day of voting. Saturday. And Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has relays on the spot, was necessarily informed that in five years, he had doubled his scores overseas. In Guyana, Guadeloupe and Martinique, the candidate of La France insoumise is even “elected” in the first round. The candidate made few trips during the campaign, except overseas.
In Guyana, Jean-Luc Mélenchon won 50.59% of the vote, against 24.71% in 2017. He prances far ahead of Marine Le Pen, who came second with 17.66%, whereas five years ago, the Guyanese had granted him a generous 24.3%. Was Christiane Taubira’s intervention decisive? The former Minister of Justice had called to vote Mélenchon. The territory mobilized a little more between 2017 and 2022: abstention went from 65.65 to 63.84%.
56.16% and Guadeloupe
In Martinique, the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône obtains 53.10% of the vote, almost twice his 2017 score (27.37). The island granted second place to Emmanuel Macron with 16.30% of the vote, down nearly ten points.
It is in Guadeloupe that Mélenchon obtains his best score: 56.16% of the votes. “I’m like you: a rebellious bad head. This is what makes our charm “, he had launched last December to Guadeloupe, in the fight against the obligation to vaccinate caregivers and firefighters. In 2017, he already came first in the first round, but with 24.13% of the vote. Emmanuel Macron has plummeted in five years, from 30.23% when he first ran to 13.43 today.
In these three regions, no other candidate emerges, the scores ranging from 0.49 to 4.39%.