Participation at 12:00 is 26.6%
The total uncertainty about which government will emerge from next Sunday’s parliamentary elections, including the possibility of the far right coming to power, is driving citizens to the polls. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the turnout at noon was 26.63%. The figure is higher than the 25.9% of last Sunday’s first round and, above all, much higher than in the 2022 parliamentary elections, when it barely reached 18.99% at noon.
The figures confirm the high participation expected in these early parliamentary elections, which already brought 66.71% of French voters with the right to vote to the polls in the first round last Sunday. This was the highest figure in 27 years since the 1997 parliamentary elections (67.9% participation). In the parliamentary elections two years ago, only 47.51% voted in the first round.
These first figures – another measurement at 5 p.m. – confirm the high participation predicted by the polls of the past few days. According to the Ipsos Institute, the French who have indicated that they will vote next Sunday are between 66 and 70%, even more than in the first round.
As emphasized The WorldThis Sunday, only 43.3 million French people will be called to the polls, since nearly six million citizens live in constituencies where a candidate won in the first round, so they do not have to vote a second time. Of the 577 seats up for grabs, 76 have already been allocated since June 30: 39 deputies from the far-right National Regroupment (RN) and its allies, 32 from the left-wing alliance New Popular Front (NFP), two from the now Macronist majority, two from the various right and one from the conservative Los Republicanos (LR). There are still 409 duels and 89 triangular duels left, in which none of the classified candidates has withdrawn to stop the RN, as has been done in more than 200 constituencies.