For his third candidacy for the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon won 21.95% of the vote.
That is more than 2 points more than in 2017 (19.58%).
In an exclusive study for
Le Figaro
and the Jean Jaurès Foundation, political scientist and essayist Jérôme Fourquet shows how the candidate of the Popular Union has brought together a large electorate with quite disparate components.
Overseas departments, alternative campaigns, union strongholds, "climate generation", suburbanites, Muslims and battalions of the graduated left of the metropolises constitute the Melenchonist archipelago.
The result of the presidential election will largely depend on the contrasting attitude of these different islands in the second round.
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A sociologically homogeneous vote
While the electorates of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are sociologically very typical (CSP+ overrepresented for Macron and best scores among the CSP- for Le Pen), the Mélenchon vote is very homogeneous professionally.
He achieved in all categories a score…
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