Following the result of the first round, Macron and Le Pen continued to the 7 May runoff.
The first round was held under a state of emergency that was declared following the November 2015 Paris attacks. After strong debate performances, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of La France Insoumise (FI) rose significantly in polls in late March, overtaking Hamon to place just below Fillon. At the same time, Benoît Hamon won the Socialist primary, entering fourth place in the polls.
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Polls tightened considerably by late January after the publication of revelations that Fillon employed family members in possibly fictitious jobs in a series of politico-financial affairs that came to be colloquially known as " Penelopegate", Macron overtook Fillon to place consistently second in first-round polling. Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party (PS) was eligible to run for a second term, but declared on 1 December 2016 that he would not seek reelection in light of low approval ratings, making him the first incumbent head of state of the Fifth Republic not to seek reelection.įrançois Fillon of The Republicans (LR)-after winning the party's first open primary-and Le Pen of the National Front led first-round opinion polls in November 2016 and mid-January 2017. The presidential election was followed by a legislative election to elect members of the National Assembly on 11 and 18 June. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates, Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN), which Macron won by a decisive margin. The 2017 French presidential election was held on 23 April and. Results of the second round by department and region
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