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Presidential 2022: Ile-de-France votes Macron, Le Pen does better than in 2017

2022-04-24T23:15:48.125Z


While abstention and blank votes still marked this second round of voting, the outgoing president won his duel but with less


In Île-de-France, Emmanuel Macron won the vote this Sunday evening with 73.02% of the vote, but the gap with the candidate of the National Rally narrowed compared to 2017 (26.98%).

The voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had won five departments in the first round, mainly went to the candidate LREM.

Macron wide winner in Paris

A great success.

Emmanuel Macron (LREM) came first in this second round of the presidential election in the capital with 85.10% of the vote.

A success a little less clear than in 2017 when he had gathered 89.7% of the votes.

Marine Le Pen achieves a better score.

In five years, it went from 10.3% to 14.9%.

Significant progress in a city that has always blocked the National Front (FN).

Abstention is four points higher this year (25.84% against 21.5% in 2017).

Note a rough start to the evening near Les Halles in Paris Center then Place de la République where the police sometimes had to intervene to disperse demonstrators hostile to the victory of the outgoing president.

Hauts-de-Seine: Macron in front but down from 2017

Eight out of ten voters voted for Emmanuel Macron (80.39% of the vote against 19.61% for Marine Le Pen).

The outgoing president comes by far in the lead in the Hauts-de-Seine after obtaining 37.1% of the vote on April 10.

The scores of Emmanuel Macron (LREM) nevertheless recorded a drop of five points on average compared to 2017 (85.6% at the level of the department).

In Boulogne-Billancourt, the president obtained 83.3% of the vote, against 88.7% in 2017. In Villeneuve-la-Garenne, where the turnout was very low (56.08%) and where Jean-Luc Mélenchon was came first with 55% of the vote two weeks ago, Emmanuel Macron obtained 74.79% of the vote (80.3% in 2017).

Seine-Saint-Denis will still have blocked Le Pen

As in 2002 and 2017, the republican front will have worked in Seine-Saint-Denis, where Emmanuel Macron won the second round in all the municipalities where the results had been announced at 11:45 p.m.

The outgoing president obtained 73.72% of the vote against 26.28% for the candidate Le Pen.

Macron obtains his best scores in the cities of the very first crown, such as Lilas (83.43%), Pantin (83.23%), Saint-Ouen (82.34%), Pré-Saint-Gervais, in Bagnolet (79.94%) or in Saint-Denis (79.09%).

On the other hand, Marine Le Pen's scores increase as one moves away from the capital: she obtains her best result in Coubron (43.45%).

In Val-de-Marne, Macron sweeps right-wing cities

In Val-de-Marne, Emmanuel Macron came out on top with 74.48% of the vote against 25.52% for Marine Le Pen.

He was behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) in the first round.

In the right-wing towns, the outgoing president takes off with 76.74% in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, 77.42% in Joinville-le-Pont, the record being Vincennes, with 84.1% of the vote.

In left-wing cities too, Emmanuel Macron is full: 81.03% in Cachan, 70.16% in Bonneuil-sur-Marne.

And this, against a background of abstention reaching 40% in Bonneuil.

But compared to 2017, Marine Le Pen is progressing.

The RN thus exceeds 40% in certain communes of the Briard Plateau, 40.91% in Ablon-sur-Seine.

Macron ahead in the Yvelines, Le Pen is gaining ground

In the department of Valérie Pécresse, the outgoing president won 71.05% of the vote, against 28.95% for the candidate of the National Rally.

He achieves overwhelming scores, around 70-80% in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Maisons-Laffitte, Marly-le-Roi… But Marine Le Pen is gaining ground.

In addition to the villages around Mantes-la-Jolie, it came first in two small towns: Porcheville and Bonnières-sur-Seine, as well as in the southern tip of the department.

Which was not the case in 2017. She also gained 6 points at Versailles (about 30%).

As everywhere, abstention was high in Mureaux (44%), Mantes-la-Jolie (42%) or Chanteloup-les-Vignes (41%).

In Essonne, Macron in the lead but loses nine points compared to 2017

Emmanuel Macron comes first in Essonne with 65.43% of the vote in a department which had placed Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the lead in the 1st round.

Macron is ahead of Marine Le Pen (34.57%), but loses more than nine points compared to the second round of 2017. The RN candidate achieves her best score in the village of Chauffour-lès-Étréchy with 62.16%.

Emmanuel Macron has again convinced the north-west of the department, in particular in the agglomeration of Paris-Saclay, where it exceeds 70% in several cities.

Abstention, already on the rise in 2017 with 25.1%, continues to progress with 26.95% of voters who did not want to go to the polls.

In Seine-et-Marne, the gap has narrowed compared to 2017

After the warning of the first round, which had seen Jean-Luc Mélenchon credited with 25.87% of the votes in Seine-et-Marne, the voters decided in the department as in the whole of the country by placing Emmanuel Macron in the lead. of the second round.

The outgoing president collects 56.98% of the votes cast ahead of Marine Le Pen who is content with 43.02%.

Nothing to do, however, with the scores of the two finalists in 2017. The gap narrowed since the candidate LREM had obtained 63.9% of the votes against 36.1% for the boss of the RN.

What has evolved considerably is the combination of abstention and blank and invalid votes: in the first round, the whole weighed 26.5% of registered voters while this Sunday evening, it reached 35.7%.

In the Val-d'Oise, the mélenchonistes reported on Macron

Val-d'Oise, which had placed Jean-Luc Mélenchon well ahead of the first round (33%), ahead of Emmanuel Macron (26%) and Marine Le Pen (17%) saw a postponement of the votes of the candidate of the France rebellious towards the outgoing president (66.15%, against 33.85% for Marine Le Pen).

This is particularly the case in Argenteuil, the largest city in the department, where Jean-Luc Mélenchon had convinced 49% of voters.

This time, Emmanuel Macron obtains 73.38% of the votes.

An identical movement occurred in Cergy and Sarcelles, two cities where Jean-Luc Mélenchon had won 47% of the vote two weeks ago, and in which Emmanuel Macron obtained 76% and 67% of the vote this time.

Many voters, however, decided not to go to the voting booth, since the participation rate is 62% in the department.

Source: leparis

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