2012 Election
| Candidates | Parties | 1st round | 2nd round | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| François Hollande | Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) | PS | 10,272,705 | 28.63% | 18,000,668 | 51.64% | |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire) | UMP | 9,753,629 | 27.18% | 16,860,685 | 48.36% | |
| Marine Le Pen | National Front (Front national) | FN | 6,421,426 | 17.90% | |||
| Jean-Luc Mélenchon | Left Front (Front de gauche) | FG | 3,984,822 | 11.10% | |||
| François Bayrou | Democratic Movement (Mouvement démocrate) | MoDem | 3,275,122 | 9.13% | |||
| Eva Joly | Europe Écologie–The Greens (Europe Écologie–Les Verts) | EELV | 828,345 | 2.31% | |||
| Nicolas Dupont-Aignan | Arise the Republic (Debout la République) | DLR | 643,907 | 1.79% | |||
| Philippe Poutou | New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste) | NPA | 411,160 | 1.15% | |||
| Nathalie Arthaud | Workers' Struggle (Lutte Ouvrière) | LO | 202,548 | 0.56% | |||
| Jacques Cheminade | Solidarity and Progress (Solidarité et Progrès) | SP | 89,545 | 0.25% | |||
| Total | 35,883,209 | 100% | 34,861,353 | 100% | |||
| Valid votes | 35,883,209 | 98.08% | 34,861,353 | 94.18% | |||
| Spoilt and null votes | 701,190 | 1.92% | 2,154,956 | 5.82% | |||
| Turnout | 36,584,399 | 79.48% | 37,016,309 | 80.35% | |||
| Abstentions | 9,444,143 | 20.52% | 9,049,998 | 19.65% | |||
| Registered voters | 46,028,542 | 46,066,307 | |||||
| Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.
Source: List of candidates · First round result · Second round result |
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