Macron, Le Pen and Melenchon cast their vote in the ballot box.
National Regrouping (former National Front) of the far-right leader Marine Le Pen would get 19.2% of the vote in the legislative elections, according to exit polls
Technical tie. The union of left-wing parties and the party of centrist President Emmanuel Macron and his allies tied today in the first round of the French legislative elections, according to the first estimates of the electoral results.
The elections were marked by the irruption in the political scene of the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and by a record abstention. The second and final round of the legislative elections will be held next Sunday, June 19.
Nupes – which brings together La France Insumisa, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) – would obtain 26.1% of the votes. Ensemble (Together), the name with which Macron’s party and its allies present themselves in these elections, would get 25.6% of the vote, according to estimates of the Ifop-Fiducial results for TF1 and LCI.
National Regrouping (former National Front) of the far-right leader Marine Le Pen would get 19.2% of the vote. The Republicans (moderate right) and their allies would obtain 11.3% and Reconquest of the far-right Éric Zemmour would obtain 4.1% of the votes respectively, pending the final results.
As expected, the first round of the legislative elections, in which the 577 seats in the National Assembly are renewed, was marked by record abstention. According to initial estimates, abstention would reach 53%, almost ten points more than in 2012. Only 47% of the French with the right to vote would have gone to the polls yesterday. In 2017, abstention in the first round was 51.3% and in 2012, 42.8%.
In the first round of the legislative elections, 6,293 candidates were presented in 577 constituencies, the same number of seats that are at stake in these elections. In 2017, there were 7,877 candidates for the elections.
The legislative ones are, in reality, 577 simultaneous elections in two rounds with an average of 11 candidates per constituency. We will have to wait for the final results to come out to find out the number of deputies who were directly elected in the first round. For this, they needed to obtain a majority of the valid votes (at least 50%) and that the votes obtained represent at least 25% of the electoral census of that constituency.