2012 French Presidential Election
22 April 2012 and 6 May 2012 · Shocks and recompositions · direct two-round vote
Presidential elections were held in France on 22 April 2012 (or 21 April in some overseas departments and territories), with a second round run-off held on 6 May (or 5 May for those same territories) to elect the President of France (who is also ex officio one of the two joint heads of state of Andorra, a sovereign state).
President before
Nicolas Sarkozy
UMP
Elected President
François Hollande
PS
Winning share
51.6%
second round
Turnout
79.5%
second round 80.3%
The result
| François Hollande | Socialist Party | 10 272 705 | 28.63% | 18 000 668 | 51.64% |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | Union for a Popular Movement | 9 753 629 | 27.18% | 16 860 685 | 48.36% |
| Marine Le Pen | National Front | 6 421 426 | 17.90% | — | — |
| Jean-Luc Mélenchon | Left Front | 3 984 822 | 11.10% | — | — |
| François Bayrou | Democratic Movement | 3 275 122 | 9.13% | — | — |
| Eva Joly | Europe Ecology – The Greens | 828 345 | 2.31% | — | — |
| Nicolas Dupont-Aignan | Republic Arise | 643 907 | 1.79% | — | — |
| Philippe Poutou | New Anticapitalist Party | 411 160 | 1.15% | — | — |
| Nathalie Arthaud | Workers' Struggle | 202 548 | 0.56% | — | — |
| Jacques Cheminade | Solidarity and Progress | 89 545 | 0.25% | — | — |