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 Republique 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
Eric Zemmour
Jean-Luc Melenchon
Anne Hidalgo
Yannick Jadot
Valerie Pecresse
Philippe Poutou
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
Declined
Jacques Cheminade, candidate of Solidarity and Progress (S&P) in the 1995, 2012, and 2017 presidential elections
Francois Fillon, Prime Minister from 2007 to 2012 and candidate of The Republicans (LR) in the 2017 presidential election,
Gerard 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 Marechal, member of the National Assembly for Vaucluse's 3rd constituency from 2012 to 2017 and regional councillor of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur from 2015 to 2017
Francois 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 Republique 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 Melenchon
| 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;"| Eric Zemmour
| style="text-align:left;"| Reconquete
| R!
| 2,485,935
| 7.07
|-
| style="background-color:blue;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Valerie Pecresse
| 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;" | Resistons!
| 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 Ouvriere
| 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
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Opinion polling
Second round (Macron vs. Le Pen)
First round
References
Presidential election
France
April 2022 events
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