Some 48.7 million French people were called to the polls this Sunday, April 10, 2022 for the first round of the presidential election. Polling stations opened everywhere in France between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. and until 8 p.m. in major cities. Twelve candidates presented themselves during this first round.
And, not surprisingly, as in 2017, outgoing President Emmanuel Macron largely qualified for the second round of the presidential election on Sunday, with a score of 27.6% to 29.7% of the votes cast, ahead of candidate RN Marine Le Pen, between 23.5% and 24.7%, according to the first estimates of polling institutes at 8:00 p.m.
Given third, the LFI candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is between 19.8 and 20.8%, ahead of Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!), between 6.5% and 7.1%, the ecologist Yannick Jadot between 4.4 % and 5% and the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse between 4.3% and 5%.
The right-wing LR and the Socialist Party hit all-time lows in a presidential election, with socialist Anne Hidalgo garnering around 2% of the vote in the first round, while Valérie Pécresse nears 5% or less.
All the other candidates would be below the 5% mark: the iconoclast Jean Lassalle (2%-3.3%), the communist Fabien Roussel (2%-2.7%), the sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignant (1, 8%-2.3%). Trotskyists Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaud bring up the rear with between 0.5% and 1% of the vote.
During this first round, abstention should be between 25% and 26.5% according to the first estimates of polling institutes, i.e. a higher level than in 2017 (22.23%), but without reaching the record of 2002 by 28.4%.
The estimates were provided by the following institutes: Ifop (for TF1/LCI/ParisMatch/SudRadio), Ipsos Sopra-Steria (FranceTv/RadioFrance/LeParisien/LCP/RFI), Elabe (BFMTV/RMC/L’Express/ SFR), Harris Interactive (RTL/M6) and OpinionWay for CNews/Europe1.