The outgoing Emmanuel Macron re-elected, the extreme right at the highest level or even the Antilles and Guyana which massively supported the RN Marine Le Pen: here are five things to remember from the second round of the presidential election in infographics.
Five more years
Emmanuel Macron is re-elected for five years as President of the Republic thanks to a clear victory over his opponent Marine Le Pen. According to estimates, the outgoing president obtained around 58% of the vote, or about 16 points ahead. It is the first time that an outgoing president has been re-elected since the establishment of the five-year term in 2002 and excluding cohabitation. “A historic result, historic responsibility,” said government spokesman Gabriel Attal.
The extreme right at the “top”
Third consecutive presidential candidacy and third defeat for Marine Le Pen. Around 42% of the vote, however, she achieved the best result ever achieved by a far-right candidate for the Elysée. “The ideas we represent are reaching new heights (…) The result represents in itself a resounding victory,” she proclaimed to her supporters after the publication of the estimates. In 2017, she received nearly 34% of the vote. His father Jean-Marie Le Pen had barely obtained 17.79% in 2002 against Jacques Chirac, when the far right had qualified for the first time in the second round.
Abstention on the rise
As in the first round, abstention was strong on Sunday, without breaking the 1969 record. According to estimates, it was around 28%, or just over one in four voters who shunned the ballot boxes. About 14 million voters therefore refused on Sunday to decide between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, a million more than the abstainers on April 10 (12.8 million). To which are added the 6.5% of registered voters who also refused to choose by slipping a blank or invalid ballot, that is to say more than 3 million voters. “35% of the electorate either did not vote, or voted blank and void”, sums up political scientist Jérôme Jaffré on LCI, stressing that “17 million voters, out of the 48 million registered, did not took part in the ballot.
Small consolation, the record for blank and invalid ballots in 2017, more than 3 million blank ballots and one million invalid ballots in the second round of 2017, is not equaled. According to an Ipsos Sopra-Steria poll on the reasons for abstaining and blank or null votes, 24% of those who abstained say they did so because they “refuse to choose between two candidates” who they “totally reject”, like 49% of those who voted blank or null.
Those overseas who vote for Le Pen
“This France too forgotten, we, we do not forget it”, assured Marine Le Pen, by way of thanks for the support obtained in the Overseas. She came first in the second round of the presidential election in Guadeloupe with 69.6% of the vote, in Martinique (60.87%), in Saint-Barthélemy (54.73%), in Guyana (60.70% ), as well as in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (50.69%). Conversely, Emmanuel Macron came out on top in the Pacific territories, as in the first round, at 61.04% in New Caledonia, 51.80% in French Polynesia and 67.44% in Wallis-et. -Futuna.
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