MAPS: How France voted in the first round of the Presidential elections
The rise of the far right and the high abstention rate - worrying trends for French politics ahead of the second round of the 2022 Presidential election - can be seen in these maps of the latest French voting trends.
Emmanuel Macron will face Marine Le Pen in the second round of the race for the French Presidency, in a rerun of the 2017 election campaign.
Incumbent Macron won 27.6 percent of the vote in Sunday’s first round, according to the Interior Ministry, with Le Pen second after picking up 23.41 percent of the total number of votes cast.
ALSO READ: Macron to face Le Pen in battle to be French president
To see how the voting went in each département, click on the Interior Ministry's interactive map below.
Image: Ministère de l'Intérieur
Voting in the first round went broadly as predicted, and in line with 2017 trends, with a noticeable east-west divide, as maps published by news organisations show.
READ ALSO Macron versus Le Pen: What happens next in the French presidential election race?
Interestingly, the strongest overall support for third-placed candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon seems to come from overseas territories, as this map from Le Figaro, based on official results, shows.
Retrouvez les cartes détaillées des résultats par candidat ici ➡https://t.co/AazBj7jNgx#Presidentielle2022 pic.twitter.com/AasIFJzH0B
— Le Figaro (@Le_Figaro) April 10, 2022
Libération’s simpler ‘map’ shows the electoral divide in France in stronger terms.
CARTE INTERACTIVE. Découvrez les résultats du 1er tour dans votre département et votre région
Pour l’instant, Macron est en tête dans 54 départements, contre 42 pour Le Pen et 9 pour Mélenchon. La situation peut encore évoluer. #Présidentielles2022 https://t.co/PWJ3aJgJfJ
— Libération (@libe) April 10, 2022
And Franceinfo breaks up the votes into three slides, showing where each of the top three candidates did best on Sunday.
1⃣ Ce sera donc un second tour en forme de match retour. Emmanuel Macron et Marine Le Pen s'affronteront le 24 avril.
On fait le point en cartes sur les résultats ⤵️https://t.co/yaxC3sVdA9 pic.twitter.com/QcsFqTA3Dj
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) April 11, 2022
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Another map showed how the policies of the extreme right have gained traction over the past five years.
CARTES - Résultats présidentielle 2022 : visualisez la progression de l'extrême droite en France en une imagehttps://t.co/toZVbQ3u4s pic.twitter.com/zCFIheOwke
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) April 11, 2022
The collapse of the vote for the traditional centre-right party Les Republicains, whose candidate Valérie Pécresse picked up just 4.8 percent of the vote, is plain in this interactive map from Franceinfo, comparing her performance in 2022 to that of François Fillon five years ago after his campaign was wrecked by an embezzlement investigation.
Présidentielle 2022 : visualisez l'effacement des Républicains en une imagehttps://t.co/ecV8yoVbSc pic.twitter.com/IVl0lTg2NS
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) April 11, 2022
Meanwhile, the centre-left Parti Socialiste also had a terrible night, with candidate Anne Hidalgo picking up less than 2 percent of the vote as the French pitched for the extreme centre, right and left.
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Worryingly for all the candidates, the abstention rate showed that one in four eligible voters did not exercise their right to vote. This figure was higher than the first round of voting in 2017.
Le Parisien has put together this map indicating where voters felt so disenfranchised that they did not turn out to cast their ballot.
Ce dimanche, 1 électeur sur 4 ne s’est pas rendu aux urnes
Voici la carte de la France qui a boudé ce premier tour de la #Presidentielle ➡️ https://t.co/NxRX33hjmZ pic.twitter.com/6kLp9bIxLx
— Le Parisien (@le_Parisien) April 11, 2022
Finally, with the first round of voting over, The Local's Talking France podcast looks at all the scores, discusses what happens next and who is likely to win in the Macron v Le Pen face off on April 24th.
PODCAST: Macron v Le Pen – who will win the French presidential election?
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Emmanuel Macron will face Marine Le Pen in the second round of the race for the French Presidency, in a rerun of the 2017 election campaign.
Incumbent Macron won 27.6 percent of the vote in Sunday’s first round, according to the Interior Ministry, with Le Pen second after picking up 23.41 percent of the total number of votes cast.
ALSO READ: Macron to face Le Pen in battle to be French president
To see how the voting went in each département, click on the Interior Ministry's interactive map below.
Voting in the first round went broadly as predicted, and in line with 2017 trends, with a noticeable east-west divide, as maps published by news organisations show.
READ ALSO Macron versus Le Pen: What happens next in the French presidential election race?
Interestingly, the strongest overall support for third-placed candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon seems to come from overseas territories, as this map from Le Figaro, based on official results, shows.
Retrouvez les cartes détaillées des résultats par candidat ici ➡https://t.co/AazBj7jNgx#Presidentielle2022 pic.twitter.com/AasIFJzH0B
— Le Figaro (@Le_Figaro) April 10, 2022
Libération’s simpler ‘map’ shows the electoral divide in France in stronger terms.
CARTE INTERACTIVE. Découvrez les résultats du 1er tour dans votre département et votre région
— Libération (@libe) April 10, 2022
Pour l’instant, Macron est en tête dans 54 départements, contre 42 pour Le Pen et 9 pour Mélenchon. La situation peut encore évoluer. #Présidentielles2022 https://t.co/PWJ3aJgJfJ
And Franceinfo breaks up the votes into three slides, showing where each of the top three candidates did best on Sunday.
1⃣ Ce sera donc un second tour en forme de match retour. Emmanuel Macron et Marine Le Pen s'affronteront le 24 avril.
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) April 11, 2022
On fait le point en cartes sur les résultats ⤵️https://t.co/yaxC3sVdA9 pic.twitter.com/QcsFqTA3Dj
ALSO READ As it happened: Macron and Le Pen qualify for second round of French election
Another map showed how the policies of the extreme right have gained traction over the past five years.
CARTES - Résultats présidentielle 2022 : visualisez la progression de l'extrême droite en France en une imagehttps://t.co/toZVbQ3u4s pic.twitter.com/zCFIheOwke
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) April 11, 2022
The collapse of the vote for the traditional centre-right party Les Republicains, whose candidate Valérie Pécresse picked up just 4.8 percent of the vote, is plain in this interactive map from Franceinfo, comparing her performance in 2022 to that of François Fillon five years ago after his campaign was wrecked by an embezzlement investigation.
Présidentielle 2022 : visualisez l'effacement des Républicains en une imagehttps://t.co/ecV8yoVbSc pic.twitter.com/IVl0lTg2NS
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) April 11, 2022
Meanwhile, the centre-left Parti Socialiste also had a terrible night, with candidate Anne Hidalgo picking up less than 2 percent of the vote as the French pitched for the extreme centre, right and left.
ALSO READ France’s traditional parties hammered in presidential election
Worryingly for all the candidates, the abstention rate showed that one in four eligible voters did not exercise their right to vote. This figure was higher than the first round of voting in 2017.
Le Parisien has put together this map indicating where voters felt so disenfranchised that they did not turn out to cast their ballot.
Ce dimanche, 1 électeur sur 4 ne s’est pas rendu aux urnes
— Le Parisien (@le_Parisien) April 11, 2022
Voici la carte de la France qui a boudé ce premier tour de la #Presidentielle ➡️ https://t.co/NxRX33hjmZ pic.twitter.com/6kLp9bIxLx
Finally, with the first round of voting over, The Local's Talking France podcast looks at all the scores, discusses what happens next and who is likely to win in the Macron v Le Pen face off on April 24th.
PODCAST: Macron v Le Pen – who will win the French presidential election?
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