2012 French presidential election
Results

2012 French presidential election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: None

Candidate	Party	1st round	2nd round

Votes	%	Votes	%

François Hollande	Socialist Party	PS	10,272,705	28.63	18,000,668	51.64

Nicolas Sarkozy	Union for a Popular Movement	UMP	9,753,629	27.18	16,860,685	48.36

Marine Le Pen	National Front	FN	6,421,426	17.90

Jean-Luc Mélenchon	Left Front	FG	3,984,822	11.10

François Bayrou	Democratic Movement	MoDem	3,275,122	9.13

Eva Joly	Europe Ecology – The Greens	EELV	828,345	2.31

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan	Debout la République	DLR	643,907	1.79

Philippe Poutou	New Anticapitalist Party	NPA	411,160	1.15

Nathalie Arthaud	Lutte Ouvrière	LO	202,548	0.56

Jacques Cheminade	Solidarity and Progress	S&P	89,545	0.25

Total	35,883,209	100.00	34,861,353	100.00

Valid votes	35,883,209	98.08	34,861,353	94.18

Blank and null ballots	701,190	1.92	2,154,956	5.82

Turnout	36,584,399	79.48	37,016,309	80.35

Abstentions	9,444,143	20.52	9,049,998	19.65

Registered voters	46,028,542	46,066,307

Official results published by the Constitutional Council – 1st round result · 2nd round result

Sentence(s)

Marine Le Pen finished the 2012 balloting with 17.90% of the vote tally, placing her third in the final results.

final_sentence: Marine Le Pen finished the 2012 balloting with 17.90% of the vote tally, placing her third in the final results.