This is the first barometer of the electoral temperature of this Sunday.
At noon, four hours after the opening of polling stations in mainland France, 26.41% of registered voters had cast a ballot in the ballot box for the second round of the presidential election.
This is almost two points less than in the second round in 2017 but a little better than in the first round of 2022.
Last Sunday, the participation at the same time was, according to the Ministry of the Interior, 25.48%, down this time by three points compared to 2017.
In 2017 for the second round, the rate was 28.2% of registrants.
It was already down compared to 2012 (30.8%) and especially 2007 (34.1%), but higher than in 2002, a record year (26.1%) which had been marked by the accession of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round and the mobilization around Jacques Chirac, by a republican front which seemed more solid than in 2022 against the National Front.
Towards a 27% abstention?
On April 10, total turnout in the first round stood at 73.69% of the 48.8 million registered voters.
In 2017, 77.7% of voters voted in the first round and 74.5% in the second, with around a quarter of voters choosing not to vote.
According to our daily barometer, Friday at the end of the day, the respondents were 73.5% sure that they were going to go to their polling station.
Since the start of this between-two-rounds, this figure had never exceeded 73% in our survey.
