1981 French presidential election
Results

1981 French presidential election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: None

Candidates	Parties	1st round	2nd round

Votes	%	Votes	%

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	Union for French Democracy	UDF	8,222,432	28.32%	14,642,306	48.24%

François Mitterrand	Socialist Party	PS	7,505,960	25.85%	15,708,262	51.76%

Jacques Chirac	Rally for the Republic	RPR	5,225,848	18.00%

Georges Marchais	French Communist Party	PCF	4,456,922	15.35%

Brice Lalonde	Political Ecology Movement	MEP	1,126,254	3.88%

Arlette Laguiller	Workers' Struggle	LO	668,057	2.30%

Michel Crépeau	Radical Party of the Left	PRG	642,847	2.21%

Michel Debré	Gaullist miscellaneous right	DVD	481,821	1.66%

Marie-France Garaud	Gaullist miscellaneous right	DVD	386,623	1.33%

Huguette Bouchardeau	Unified Socialist Party	PSU	321,353	1.11%

Total	29,038,117	100%	30,350,568	100%

Valid votes	29,038,117	98.38%	30,350,568	97.12%

Spoilt and null votes	477,965	1.62%	898,984	2.88%

Turnout	29,516,082	81.09%	31,249,552	85.85%

Abstentions	6,882,777	18.91%	5,149,210	14.15%

Registered voters	36,398,859	36,398,762

Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.

Sentence(s)

In the 1981 French presidential election, Mitterrand and his Socialist Party received 51.76% of the vote, while Giscard and his Union for French Democracy trailed with about 48.24%, a margin of 1,065,956 votes.

final_sentence: In the 1981 French presidential election, Mitterrand and his Socialist Party received 51.76% of the vote, while Giscard and his Union for French Democracy trailed with about 48.24%, a margin of 1,065,956 votes.