It's a sad record.
Some 66.74% of voters did not go to the polls on Sunday, June 20, 2021 for the first round of regional elections, according to final figures communicated by the Ministry of the Interior.
This means that less than one in three French people went to the polls, an increase of +17.9 points compared to the same 2015 election (49.9%), and +46 points compared to the first regional elections. of 1986 (21.8%).
This explosion concerns the whole of society, according to the details of the Ifop-Fiducial survey for TF1 / LCI.
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The figures are particularly staggering among young people.
In total, 82% of voters under 35 did not vote, up from 70% in 2015 - which already seemed high at the time.
Among 18-24 year olds, they are even 84% to have shunned the ballot box, against 76% in 2015. The increase is also considerable among retirees: 56% of them did not come, although they did not attend. were only 43% in this case in 2015.
84% of 18-24 year olds did not vote
Regarding the socio-professional categories, 69% of executives and senior intellectual professions did not vote on Sunday, against 50% in 2015. The same increase observed in the popular categories which went from 56% participation in 2015 to 72% in 2021 - 76% of which are manual workers, against 59% in 2015. We also observe a sharp increase in abstention among higher education graduates. 68% of them did not go to the polls on Sunday when they were only 46% in 2015.
The increase is also observed in all geographical situations, since 72% of the inhabitants of the Parisian agglomeration abstained, whereas they were only 50% in this case in 2015. Same phenomenon observed in the urban communes of province, with an abstention from 51% to 67%, and in rural municipalities, from 44% to 67%.
A majority of the 2017 presidential voters finally abstained.
Among them: 75% of those who voted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 60% of those who voted for Benoît Hamon, 64% of those who supported Emmanuel Macron, 48% of those who lined up behind François Fillon, and 71% of Marine Le Pen voters.
