Voting has begun for the 2022 French Presidential Election. Below is our LIVE coverage of the event…
Final Election Results: Emmanuel Macron 27,8%, Marine le Pen 23%, Jean-Luc Mélenchon 22%, Éric Zemmour 7%, Valérie Pécresse 4,8%, Yannick Jadot 4,6%, Jean Lassalle 3%, Fabien Roussel 2,3%, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan 2%, Anne Hidalgo 1,8%, Philippe Poutou 0,8%, Nathalie Arthaud 0,6%.
23H: Thanks for following the BuffPo's Election Coverage of the First Round of the French Presidential Election, this LIVE is now finished but we WILL publish the final results here tomorrow morning, see you then!
22H45: According to Ipsos, the space separating Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine le Pen is now narrowing. In the first estimations, Mélenchon had as much as a 3 point lag behind le Pen, this space has now shrunk to just 0,8%, enough to make the French TV channels wonder if they didn't guess wrong…
22H: Jean-Luc Mélenchon is still progressing gaining 1,6%. Meanwhile, Macron and Le Pen are both dropping slightly.
20H: Emmanuel Macron and Marine le Pen seem to be the two qualified for the second round of the French Presidential Election. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is third with 20,1% of the vote.
19H15: We are just minutes away from knowing the name of the two candidates qualified for the second round, stay tuned!
15H05: This LIVE is frozen. We will post again around 19H.
15H: Question by @docmartincohen on Twitter: "How will the vote for the Assembly go? Will En Marche win it again?"
Dear reader, the French Legislative Elections usually happen in June shortly after the new president's inauguration. Political parties field candidates for each of the country's 577 constituencies and the party with the most deputies elected wins a majority in the National Assembly. Today it seems unlikely that Macron's party 'La République En Marche!' would win a majority once again.
12H50: Question by @101Philosophers on Twitter: "When did overseas France vote?"
Dear reader, the Hexagon and Overseas France are scattered over 13 different timezones. For this reason, some far away French regions started voting yesterday. The first estimates, however, all come out at the same time, 20H Paris time.
12H25: Question by @MiceloNoh on Twitter:
"Can we expect Macron to NOT be in the second round?"
Dear reader, the latest polls all expect Macron to be qualified for the second round of voting but there is a risk that many of his supporters will not head to the polls today, which could be a very real problem for him.
12H20: You can ask us YOUR questions about the French Election on Twitter under our latest tweet and we'll do our best to answer them.
12H: Voter turnout is 25,48% at noon.
This is lower than in 2017 when turnout was 28,54% at 12H.
11H50: We are just minutes away from knowing the voter turnout at noon…
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