He had made an express campaign limiting it to only a few trips, constrained by the war in Ukraine, refusing any debate with the other candidates.
The French did not hold it against him: Emmanuel Macron came first in the first round of the presidential election, this Sunday, April 10, with nearly 27.6% of the vote, garnering more than 9% of ballots compared to 2017. He will face, like the last time, Marine Le Pen (23.4%).
The outgoing president came first in nearly 12,000 municipalities at the end of the first round, against 7,000 in 2017. It is a real hold-up in the west of France, in Brittany (32.8% ) and in Pays de la Loire (32.3%), where it came first in most municipalities.
Same thing in the west of Île-de-France, in Yvelines and in Hauts-de-Seine in particular, where Emmanuel Macron is raiding the voices.
He also goes to look for them in Val-d'Oise, Essonne and Seine-et-Marne, where he "cohabits" with Marine Le Pen.
As in 2017, Emmanuel Macron collects votes in large cities (26.9% in those with more than 100,000 inhabitants), despite failures in these same cities during the municipal elections – La République en Marche has not won any city among those of more than 100,000 inhabitants in 2020 – and regional ones – the party did not win any region in mainland France in 2021. For a time considered the candidate for cities, Emmanuel Macron also became the candidate for the countryside: his score in the areas rural areas, such as in isolated and medium-sized towns as well as in the suburbs, is progressing compared to 2017.
In all regions of metropolitan France, except in Occitania (where Jean-Luc Mélenchon records a breakthrough) and the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region (where Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour take the advantage), Emmanuel Macron records at least one ballot out of four.
Probably penalized by the Yvan Colonna affair, killed while imprisoned, he recorded 18% of the votes there.
Overseas, the candidate of La République en Marche recorded between 13.4% of the vote in Guadeloupe and 18% in Reunion.