2022 French Presidential Election: Latest presidential election held in France

2022 French presidential election
	Opinion polls
	Map of the results of the French presidential election by region and department in the first round
	Map of the results of the French presidential election by region and department in the second round
President before election; Emmanuel Macron; LREM	Elected President ; Emmanuel Macron; LREM

The second round was held two weeks after the first. Since no candidate wins a majority of the vote in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates two weeks later, which was incumbent president is Emmanuel Macron of La République En Marche! (LREM) against right-wing Deputy Marine Le Pen. Macron became the first French president to be re-elected in twenty years.

Candidates

Declared

On 7 March 2022, the Constitutional Council published the names of the twelve candidates who received 500 valid sponsorships, with the order of the list determined by drawing lots.

Nathalie Arthaud
Fabien Roussel
Emmanuel Macron
Jean Lassalle
Marine Le Pen
Éric Zemmour
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Anne Hidalgo
Yannick Jadot
Valérie Pécresse
Philippe Poutou
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

Declined

Jacques Cheminade, candidate of Solidarity and Progress (S&P) in the 1995, 2012, and 2017 presidential elections
François Fillon, Prime Minister from 2007 to 2012 and candidate of The Republicans (LR) in the 2017 presidential election,
Gérard Larcher, president of the Senate
Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy and Finance since 2017 and candidate in the 2016 primary of the right and centre
Marion Maréchal, member of the National Assembly for Vaucluse's 3rd constituency from 2012 to 2017 and regional councillor of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 2015 to 2017
François Hollande, President of the French Republic from 2012 to 2017

Results

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Candidate		Party		1st round 10 April 2022		2nd round 24 April 2022
Candidate		Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
	Emmanuel Macron	La République En Marche!	LREM	9,785,578	27.84	18,779,812	58.55
	Marine Le Pen	National Rally	RN	8,136,369	23.15	13,279,729	41.45
	Jean-Luc Mélenchon	La France insoumise	LFI	7,714,949	21.95
	Éric Zemmour	Reconquête	R!	2,485,935	7.07
	Valérie Pécresse	The Republicans	LR	1,679,470	4.78
	Yannick Jadot	Europe Ecology – The Greens	EELV	1,628,337	4.63
	Jean Lassalle	Résistons!	RES	1,101,690	3.13
	Fabien Roussel	French Communist Party	PCF	802,615	2.28
	Nicolas Dupont-Aignan	Debout la France	DLF	725,356	2.06
	Anne Hidalgo	Socialist Party	PS	616,651	1.75
	Philippe Poutou	New Anticapitalist Party	NPA	268,984	0.77
	Nathalie Arthaud	Lutte Ouvrière	LO	197,184	0.56

Total				35,143,118	100.00	32,077,541	100.00

Valid votes				35,143,118	97.83	32,077,541	91.40
Blank ballots				543,638	1.51	2,228,012	6.35
Null ballots				237,023	0.69	790,987	2.25
Turnout				35,923,779	73.69	35,096,540	71.99
Abstentions				12,824,135	26.31	13,655,960	28.01
Registered voters				48,747,914		48,752,500

Official results published by the Constitutional Council –1st round result

Opinion polling

Second round (Macron vs. Le Pen)

First round

References

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