2017 French Presidential Election

[windjammer]

Turnout at noon nationwide: 28,54% (+0.25)

And in my polling station: 35.8%. In my city in 2012 turnout was 3pts lower than the national rate

In which area do you live?

[Sorenroy]

What's a good site to watch the live results come in on? Politico seems to have a live tracker, but the map doesn't seem all that great. Any suggestions?

[Tirnam]

Turnout at noon nationwide: 28,54% (+0.25)

And in my polling station: 35.8%. In my city in 2012 turnout was 3pts lower than the national rate

In which area do you live?

In a FN / Left area.

Turnout in Sarthe (Fillon's home département) is down 5 points.

[afleitch]

A Le Pen - Fillon runoff. And in 2022 the French left will still run about 5 candidates.

Prove me wrong

[Hnv1]

High turnout in Israel as well, mostly for Fillon and the rest for Macron

[Velasco]

Turnout at noon nationwide: 28,54% (+0.25)

And in my polling station: 35.8%. In my city in 2012 turnout was 3pts lower than the national rate

In which area do you live?

In a FN / Left area.

Is turnout going up in similar areas across France?

[Classic Conservative]

Val-d'Isère is at 44% turnout at 12:30
https://mobile.twitter.com/RomuDansLaRadio/status/856102519961001985

[Classic Conservative]

Pas de Calais is at 23.3% turnout
Val-de-marne is at 21.2% turnout
Val-d'Oise is at 20.6% turnout
https://mobile.twitter.com/PerezMataCFC/status/856102456845119488/photo/1

[jeron]

Oise turnout down 26.3% compared to 33.8% in 2012 when Sarkozy got the largest share of the vote with Le Pen second and Hollande third.

Vosges: 33.9% (2012: 28.5) 1. Sarkozy 2. Hollande 3. Le Pen
Moselle: 26.6% (2012: 21.5) 1. Sarkozy 2. Le Pen 3. Hollande
Meurthe et Moselle: 24.9% (28.4) 1. Hollande 2. Sarkozy 3. Le Pen
Gers 38.5% 1. Hollande 2. Sarkozy 3. Le Pen

[Tirnam]

Turnout in Sablé-sur-Sarthe (Fillon's home town) is down 10 points

In Paris turnout is up 2.5 points

[Classic Conservative]

I've seen some "results" for Guadalupe, Martinique and Guyane on the internet. How well was Melenchon supposed to do in these areas?

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

I've seen some results for Guadalupe, Martinique and Guyane on the internet. How well was Melenchon supposed to do in these areas?

Those were probably fake.

[Tender Branson]

The turnout figures are all over the board.

The Interior Ministry has them for all departments and some show an increase in Fillon areas, some are down. The same for PS and FN areas ...

[Classic Conservative]

The turnout figures are all over the board.

The Interior Ministry has them for all departments and some show an increase in Fillon areas, some are down. The same for PS and FN areas ...

Link please?

[jeron]

I've seen some results for Guadalupe, Martinique and Guyane on the internet. How well was Melenchon supposed to do in these areas?

Those were probably fake.

RTBF has them on its site and apparently Melenchon has done very well overseas. Macron second overall, Le Pen third and Fillon fourth. https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_presidentielle-francaise-la-participation-a-midi-direct?id=9587638&utm_source=rtbfinfo&utm_campaign=social_share&utm_medium=twitter_share

[Tender Branson]

The turnout figures are all over the board.

The Interior Ministry has them for all departments and some show an increase in Fillon areas, some are down. The same for PS and FN areas ...

Link please?

Here's the link for all departments at 12:00 for today (3 PDF files):

http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Actualites/L-actu-du-Ministere/Election-du-president-de-la-Republique-2017-Premier-tour-Taux-de-participation-a-12h

And here's the link for 2012 (the relevant figure is on the left: Tour 1 - 12h (%):

http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Presse/Dossiers-de-presse/Dossier-de-presse-de-l-election-du-President-de-la-Republique-2017/Annexe-n-9-les-taux-de-participation-au-scrutin-de-l-election-presidentielle-de-2012-par-departement-par-ordre-decroissant

or this:

http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Presse/Dossiers-de-presse/Dossier-de-presse-de-l-election-du-President-de-la-Republique-2017/Annexe-n-6-les-taux-de-participation-au-scrutin-de-l-election-presidentielle-de-2002-2007-et-2012-par-departement-en-metropole

[Tender Branson]

I've seen some results for Guadalupe, Martinique and Guyane on the internet. How well was Melenchon supposed to do in these areas?

Those were probably fake.

RTBF has them on its site and apparently Melenchon has done very well overseas. Macron second overall, Le Pen third and Fillon fourth. https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_presidentielle-francaise-la-participation-a-midi-direct?id=9587638&utm_source=rtbfinfo&utm_campaign=social_share&utm_medium=twitter_share

If these results are accurate and mainland France votes like them, it seems Le Pen and Melenchon are heading for big wins today (Le Pen doubling of tripling her results overseas compared with 2012, while Melenchon gets a good chunk of former Hollande voters, Macron as well). Fillon and Hamon are collapsing.

But that's a big "if" ...

[peterthlee]

Here in Hong Kong, diaspora are engaged to exercise their electoral rights. Queues were observed to stretch from inside to lobby in the French Consulate.

[alomas]

It's completely ridiculous that communist candidate Melenchon has so much support. France is no longer a great country it once was and Hollande's term was a disaster but that guy would take France into an even worst level.

Generally speaking no one of these four candidates come to me as really good. Three of them are pro-Putin (and this is by no means the only bad thing about them), while the last one seem to be content with current situation: struggling economy and terrorist danger. If I had to chose I would pick Fillon as the best of the worst but I am no fan of him.

I predict Le Pen and Fillon/Macron to go through and one of the last two to win in May. However it is a pretty open race between the four today.

[SunSt0rm]

Just voted in The Hague, lines are not as long as in some other major cities abroad. Had to wait for45 min

[Classic Conservative]

Just voted in The Hague, lines are not as long as in some other major cities abroad. Had to wait for45 min

Pardon me, but who did you vote for?

[Tender Branson]

It's completely ridiculous that communist candidate Melenchon has so much support. France is no longer a great country it once was and Hollande's term was a disaster but that guy would take France into an even worst level.

Generally speaking no one of these four candidates come to me as really good. Three of them are pro-Putin (and this is by no means the only bad thing about them), while the last one seem to be content with current situation: struggling economy and terrorist danger. If I had to chose I would pick Fillon as the best of the worst but I am no fan of him.

I predict Le Pen and Fillon/Macron to go through and one of the last two to win in May. However it is a pretty open race between the four today.

It's not that ridiculous if you think about it:

In the US, most chose the extremist right candidate Trump and a lot also went to the extreme left with Bernie Sanders.

In Austria, the extreme right received 35% in the first round, while the leftist got 21%.

The establishment was shut out in both elections.

I could definitely see France also choosing the far-right extremist and the far-left extremist today.

But let's still hope that Macron tops Melenchon. A Le Pen vs. Melenchon runoff would be disgusting.

[SunSt0rm]

Just voted in The Hague, lines are not as long as in some other major cities abroad. Had to wait for45 min

Pardon me, but who did you vote for?

Macron, although i would have voted Juppe if he won the primaires

[windjammer]

Just voted!

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

It's completely ridiculous that communist candidate Melenchon has so much support. France is no longer a great country it once was and Hollande's term was a disaster but that guy would take France into an even worst level.

Generally speaking no one of these four candidates come to me as really good. Three of them are pro-Putin (and this is by no means the only bad thing about them), while the last one seem to be content with current situation: struggling economy and terrorist danger. If I had to chose I would pick Fillon as the best of the worst but I am no fan of him.

I predict Le Pen and Fillon/Macron to go through and one of the last two to win in May. However it is a pretty open race between the four today.

Melenchon is not communist.