Legislative elections 2022: participation in the first round at 18.43% at noon, down from 2017

Participation in the first round of the legislative elections reached 18.43% on Sunday at 12:00 p.m. according to the Ministry of the Interior, a figure down 0.8 points compared to 2017 when it stood at 19.24%.

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It is also down sharply from the first round of the 2022 presidential election, where it reached 25.48% at noon.

It is also lower than that of the 2012 legislative elections at the same time (21.06%).

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On the other hand, the participation is much higher than that of the departmental and regional elections of 2021 at noon (12.22%).

Finally, it is equivalent to the participation at the same time in the municipal elections of 2020 (18.38%).

Lot is the department that voted the most at noon on Sunday (27.8%), ahead of Cantal (26.35%), Jura (25.69%), Dordogne (25.19%) and Gers (24.86%).

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The lowest participation was recorded in Seine-Saint-Denis with 9.85%.