France Election Voter Turnout

According to bloomberg at least 161 million americans voted in the 2020 election the largest number of voters in a u s.

France election voter turnout. Voter turnout in the second round of france s parliamentary election is sharply down on the last vote five years ago official statistics show. Canada s last election in 2015 drew in 62 1 of voters. France also had a high voter turnout of 67 9 in 2017.

Turnout in france was. While france traditionally has higher voter turnout figures than the us uk and. The united states held its last election in.

As no candidate won a majority in the first round a runoff was held between the top two candidates emmanuel macron of en marche. This graph depicts the proportion of registered voters who voted in the presidential elections in france between 1965 and 2017 by round. In the same year the united kingdom had a voter turnout of 63 2.

During its last election in 2017 69 1 of voting age residents cast their ballots. With the exception of senatorial election for which there is an electoral college the voters are french citizens over the age of 18 registered on the electoral rolls people are automatically registered on reaching the age of 18. It appears that 1974 was the presidential election with the.

Turnout was 35 3 at 17 00 local time 16 00 bst on. The presidential election was followed by a legislative election to elect members of the national. But there is a movement underway for the blank ballots to count as a share of the overall election vote.

Em and marine le pen of the national front fn which macron won by a decisive margin. And 80 far outstrips the turnout in the most recent national elections held in many of france s neighbours including germany 71 the uk 66 and switzerland 47. For both parties voter turnout was record breaking.