Jérôme Fourquet: “How the Lepenist vote has gained ground in 20 years”

While in the second round of the 2002 presidential election, Jean-Marie Le Pen was outdistanced by nearly 20 million votes by Jacques Chirac, the gap between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen was reduced to 10 million in 2017 and was down to just 5.5 million this year.

If the FN/RN has had varying fortunes, the prospect that is emerging, with the necessary hindsight, is that of a rise in power that is as spectacular as it is continuous.

In twenty years, the Le Pen family has thus increased its second-round electoral capital by nearly 7.7 million votes, which is colossal and has considerably broadened its territorial base.

Rise of navy blue waters in peripheral France

To be able to compare the two polls, we used the same score scale on both maps.

Like a high tide, the levels have increased everywhere and the weakest strata no longer appear anywhere in 2022, with the exception of a few urban isolates, which float like peaks, the rest of the relief being drowned by the climb...

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