French presidential election Result 2007 Candidates Margin Votes % Turnout, 2007 France presidential election Result, past presidential election Result of France, French presidential election
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French presidential election Result 2007 Candidates Margin Votes % Turnout, 2007 France presidential election Result, past presidential election Result of France, French presidential election
The 2007 French presidential election, the ninth of the Fifth French Republic was held to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France for a five-year term.
The winner, decided on 5 and 6 May 2007, was Nicolas Sarkozy. The first round of voting took place on Saturday, 21 April 2007 (French territories in the Americas and the Eastern Pacific) and Sunday, 22 April 2007 (French territories in the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Metropolitan France). As no candidate obtained a majority (50 percent plus one), a second round between the two leading candidates, Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal, took place on Saturday, 5 May and Sunday, 6 May 2007.
French presidential election results 21–22 April and 5–6 May 2007
Candidates | Parties | 1st round | 2nd round | |||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
Nicolas Sarkozy | Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire) | UMP | 1,14,48,663 | 31.18% | 1,89,83,138 | 53.06% |
Ségolène Royal | Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) | PS | 95,00,112 | 25.87% | 1,67,90,440 | 46.94% |
François Bayrou | Union for French Democracy (Union pour la démocratie française) | UDF | 68,20,119 | 18.57% | ||
Jean-Marie Le Pen | National Front (Front national) | FN | 38,34,530 | 10.44% | ||
Olivier Besancenot | Revolutionary Communist League(Ligue communiste révolutionnaire) | LCR | 14,98,581 | 4.08% | ||
Philippe de Villiers | Movement for France(Mouvement pour la France) | MPF | 8,18,407 | 2.23% | ||
Marie-George Buffet | French Communist Party (Parti communiste français) | PCF | 7,07,268 | 1.93% | ||
Dominique Voynet | The Greens (Les Verts) | VEC | 5,76,666 | 1.57% | ||
Arlette Laguiller | Workers' Struggle(Lutte ouvrière) | LO | 4,87,857 | 1.33% | ||
José Bové | Alter-globalizationactivist | 4,83,008 | 1.32% | |||
Frédéric Nihous | Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition(Chasse, pêche, nature, traditions) | CPNT | 4,20,645 | 1.15% | ||
Gérard Schivardi | Workers' Party (Parti des travailleurs) | PT | 1,23,540 | 0.34% | ||
Total | 3,67,19,396 | 100% | 3,57,73,578 | 100% | ||
Valid votes | 3,67,19,396 | 98.56% | 3,57,73,578 | 95.80% | ||
Spoilt and null votes | 5,34,846 | 1.44% | 15,68,426 | 4.20% | ||
Votes cast / turnout | 3,72,54,242 | 83.77% | 3,73,42,004 | 83.97% | ||
Abstentions | 72,18,592 | 16.23% | 71,30,729 | 16.03% | ||
Registered voters | 4,44,72,834 | 4,44,72,733 | ||||
Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results byConstitutional Council of France. |
Exit polls second round
Candidate | Party | France 2 |
---|---|---|
Nicolas Sarkozy | UMP | 53% |
Ségolène Royal | PS | 47% |
Sources: elections.france2.fr |