25.48% of the French electors had voted at noon today (10:00 GMT) in the first round of the presidential elections, lower than five years agoaccording to data published by the Ministry of the Interior.
In the previous elections of 2017, at that same time 28.54% had voted and participation stood at the end of the day at 77.8%. As a comparison, in 2012 the participation rate at the same time was 28.29% and in the 2007 elections it reached 31.21%. The record low turnout in the first round at noon was 21.40% in the 2002 elections.
Macron and Le Pen tied at Gundershoffen in 2017. Today, only the priest wants the president
Alvaro F. Cruz. Gundershoffen (France)
Gundershoffen’s statistical anomaly becomes relevant now that the race for the Elysee looks tighter than ever. According to the polls, Le Pen is managing to collect the disenchantment with the jupiterine presidency of Macron
The possibility of a high abstentioneven at a record level, among the 48.8 million citizens called to the polls It is one of the keys to this day, according to the polls of voting intentions. The first to go to the polls among the candidates was the socialist Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, who deposited her vote in a school in the 15th district of the capital.
Then they progressively voted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon (left), Valerie Pécresse (conservative right), Eric Zemmour Y Marine Le Pen (both far-right) and Yannick Jadot (environmentalist), among the main candidates. Instead, the outgoing president, Emmanuel Macron, has not yet voted in the small town of Le Touquet (north), where he is registered.