1981 French presidential election
Results

Candidates
Candidates
Parties
Parties
1st round
1st round
2nd round
2nd round
Candidates
Candidates
Parties
Parties
Votes
%
Votes
%
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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
Total
Total
Total
29,038,117
100%
30,350,568
100%
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Valid votes
Valid votes
Valid votes
Valid votes
29,038,117
98.38%
30,350,568
97.12%
Spoilt and null votes
Spoilt and null votes
Spoilt and null votes
Spoilt and null votes
477,965
1.62%
898,984
2.88%
Turnout
Turnout
Turnout
Turnout
29,516,082
81.09%
31,249,552
85.85%
Abstentions
Abstentions
Abstentions
Abstentions
6,882,777
18.91%
5,149,210
14.15%
Registered voters
Registered voters
Registered voters
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.
Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.
Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.
Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.
Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.
Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.
Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.
Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.

Question: What are the parties, votes and percentage of votes by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand in 1981 French presidential election?
Answer: 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.