Arrived respectively in fifth and tenth place in the first round of the presidential election, neither Valérie Pécresse (Les Républicains, LR) nor Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party, PS) reached the 5% of the votes cast which would have allowed them to have their campaign costs reimbursed. The LR candidate obtained only 4.78% of the votes cast, or 1.7 million votes, while that of the PS only collected 1.75% (0.6 million votes).
This is a historic rout for currents present in political life since the beginning of the Ve Republic, in 1958, and who alternately ruled France for thirty years, until the election of Emmanuel Macron, in 2017. According to the evolution of alliances, programs and electoral reconfigurations, find in the graph below the evolution of the votes attributed to the two major formations of the Gaullist right and the socialist left.