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.

## Candidates
### 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 
|}

## Opinion polling
### Second round (Macron vs. Le Pen)
### First round
## References