2022 French presidential election

The 2022 French presidential election was held between 10 and 24 April 2022, the first round was held on 10 April 2022. 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.

2022 French presidential election

10 April 2022 (1st round) 24 April 2022 (2nd round)

Opinion polls

Nominee Emmanuel Macron Marine Le Pen Party LREM RN Popular vote 18,768,639 13,288,686 Percentage 58.6% 41.4%

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

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

Candidate		Party		1st round 10 April 2022		2nd round 24 April 2022
				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