page_title: 2016 The Republicans (France) presidential primary
section_title: Voting procedures
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 The Republicans (France) presidential primary / Voting procedures
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Bulletins de vote du premier tour de la primaire de la droite et du centre en 2016 dans l'isoloir à Tramoyes.
context_page_description: The Republicans held a presidential primary election, officially called the open primary of the right and centre, to select a candidate for the 2017 French presidential election. It took place on 20 November 2016, with a runoff on 27 November since no candidate obtained at least 50% of the vote in the first round. It was the first time an open primary had been held for The Republicans or its predecessors.
  In the first round of the Republicans primary on November 20, François Fillon won an upset victory with 44% of the vote, while Alain Juppé - long held by most opinion polls as the favorite to win the nomination - came in a distant second with 29%. Nicolas Sarkozy, who was projected to come in second behind Juppé, was eliminated with just under 21% of the vote.
  In the runoff round, Fillon won by an even larger margin with nearly twice as many votes as Juppé. Of the five departments won by Sarkozy in the first round, all but one switched to Fillon in the runoff. Similarly, of the thirteen departments that originally voted for Juppé, nine switched to Fillon in the second round.
context_section_description: Unlike previous Union for a Popular Movement primaries, this was the first primary to be open to the general public. The first round of voting took place on 20 November 2016. Voting booths were open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. A runoff was held on 27 November after no candidate obtained at least 50% of the vote in the first round.
  All registered voters were allowed to vote in the primary, as well as minors whose eighteenth birthday was before 23 April 2017. 10,228 voting booths were established with each person on the voting register attached to an office. To receive a ballot, a voter must pay 2 euros.
  People abroad who wanted to vote in The Republicans party were given electronic voting machines to do so.
caption: Ballot papers used in the first round
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