2017 French Presidential Election
The system upended23 April 2017 and 7 May 2017 · Shocks and recompositions · direct two-round vote
Presidential elections were held in France on 23 April and 7 May 2017. Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party (PS) was eligible to run for a second term, but declared on 1 December 2016 that he would not seek reelection in light of low approval ratings, making him the first incumbent head of state of the Fifth Republic not to seek reelection.
President before
François Hollande
PS
Elected President
Emmanuel Macron
EM
Winning share
66.1%
second round
Turnout
77.8%
second round 74.6%
The result
| Emmanuel Macron | La République En Marche! | 8 656 346 | 24.01% | 20 743 128 | 66.10% |
| Marine Le Pen | National Front | 7 678 491 | 21.30% | 10 638 475 | 33.90% |
| François Fillon | The Republicans | 7 212 995 | 20.01% | — | — |
| Jean-Luc Mélenchon | La France Insoumise | 7 059 951 | 19.58% | — | — |
| Benoît Hamon | Socialist Party | 2 291 288 | 6.36% | — | — |
| Nicolas Dupont-Aignan | Debout la France | 1 695 000 | 4.70% | — | — |
| Jean Lassalle | Résistons! | 435 301 | 1.21% | — | — |
| Philippe Poutou | New Anticapitalist Party | 394 505 | 1.09% | — | — |
| François Asselineau | Popular Republican Union | 332 547 | 0.92% | — | — |
| Nathalie Arthaud | Workers' Struggle | 232 384 | 0.64% | — | — |
| Jacques Cheminade | Solidarity and Progress | 65 586 | 0.18% | — | — |