France Presidential election 2017 — Results
First round: April 23, 2017
Second round: May 7, 2017
- Emmanuel Macron: 66.10%
- Marine Le Pen: 33.90%
About this election
The electoral system
The President of the French Republic is elected by direct universal suffrage using a two-round majority system. To win in the first round a candidate must obtain an absolute majority of votes cast; since this has never happened, the two best-placed candidates advance to a run-off held a fortnight later. The president serves a five-year term (the quinquennat, introduced in 2000) and, since 2008, may serve no more than two consecutive terms. The office is the dominant institution of the Fifth Republic, controlling foreign and defence policy and able to dissolve the National Assembly.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
Understanding this election
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts