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.

### 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

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2"| Candidate
! rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Party
! colspan="2"| 1st round
 10 April 2022
! colspan="2"| 2nd round
 24 April 2022
|-
! width="75"|Votes
! width="30"|%
! width="75"|Votes
! width="30"|%
|-
| style="background-color:gold;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Emmanuel Macron
| style="text-align:left;"| La République En Marche!
| LREM
| **9,785,578**
| **27.84**
| **18,779,812**
| **58.55**
|-
| style="background-color:darkblue;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Marine Le Pen
| style="text-align:left;"| National Rally
| RN
| **8,136,369**
| **23.15**
| 13,279,729
| 41.45
|-
| style="background-color:darkred;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Jean-Luc Mélenchon
| style="text-align:left;"| La France insoumise
| LFI
| 7,714,949
| 21.95
| style="background-color:#F4F4F4;" colspan="2" rowspan="10"|
|-
| style="background-color:#011F5B;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Éric Zemmour
| style="text-align:left;"| Reconquête
| R!
| 2,485,935
| 7.07
|-
| style="background-color:blue;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Valérie Pécresse
| style="text-align:left;"| The Republicans
| LR
| 1,679,470
| 4.78
|-
| style="background-color:green;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Yannick Jadot
| style="text-align:left;"| Europe Ecology – The Greens
| EELV
| 1,628,337
| 4.63
|-
| style="background-color:lightblue;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Jean Lassalle
| style="text-align:left;" | Résistons!
| RES
| 1,101,690
| 3.13
|-
| style="background-color:red;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Fabien Roussel
| style="text-align:left;"| French Communist Party
| PCF
| 802,615
| 2.28
|-
| style="background-color:#73C2FB;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
| style="text-align:left;"| Debout la France
| DLF
| 725,356
| 2.06
|-
| style="background-color:#fea3aa;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Anne Hidalgo
| style="text-align:left;"| Socialist Party
| PS
| 616,651
| 1.75
|-
| style="background-color:#ED2939;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Philippe Poutou
| style="text-align:left;"| New Anticapitalist Party
| NPA
| 268,984
| 0.77
|-
| style="background-color:#960018;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Nathalie Arthaud
| style="text-align:left;"| Lutte Ouvrière
| LO
| 197,184
| 0.56
|-
| style="background color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="8"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Total
| 35,143,118
| 100.00
| 32,077,541
| 100.00
|-
| style="background color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="8"|
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Valid votes
| 35,143,118
| 97.83
| 32,077,541
| 91.40
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Blank ballots
| 543,638
| 1.51
| 2,228,012
| 6.35
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Null ballots
| 237,023
| 0.69
| 790,987
| 2.25
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Turnout
| 35,923,779
| 73.69
| 35,096,540
| 71.99
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Abstentions
| 12,824,135
| 26.31
| 13,655,960
| 28.01
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Registered voters
| 48,747,914
| style="background-color:#F4F4F4;"|
| 48,752,500
| style="background-color:#F4F4F4;"|
|-
| style="background-color:#F4F4F4;" colspan="8"|
|-
| style="text-align:left" colspan="8"|
Official results published by the Constitutional Council –1st round result
|}

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2022 French presidential election
- **country**: France
- **type**: presidential
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: 2017 French presidential election
- **previous year**: 2017
- **election date**: 10 April 2022 (1st round)

- **next election**: 2027 French presidential election
- **next year**: 2027
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling for the 2022 French presidential election
- **title**: President
- **before election**: Emmanuel Macron
- **before party**: La République En Marche!
- **image1**:
- **nominee1**: **Emmanuel Macron**
- **party1**: La République En Marche!
- **popular vote1**: **18,768,639**
- **percentage1**: **58.6%**
- **image2**:
- **nominee2**: Marine Le Pen
- **party2**: National Rally, RN
- **color2**: 004A77
- **popular vote2**: 13,288,686
- **percentage2**: 41.4%
- **map image**: 2022 French Presidential Election First Round Map.svg
- **map caption**: Map of the results of the French presidential election by region and department in the first round
- **map2 image**: 2022 French Presidential Election Second Round Map.svg
- **map2 caption**: Map of the results of the French presidential election by region and department in the second round
- **after election**: Emmanuel Macron
- **after party**: La République En Marche!