2012 French presidential election
The 2012 French presidential election was a presidential election in France that took place on 22 April 2012 and 5–6 May 2012. The incumbent president, Nicolas Sarkozy, ran for a second term.
The main candidates were Nicolas Sarkozy from the Union for a Popular Movement, François Hollande from the Socialist Party, Marine Le Pen from the National Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon from the Left Front, François Bayrou from the Democratic Movement, Eva Joly from The Greens, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan from Debout la France, Philippe Poutou from the New Anticapitalist Party, Nathalie Arthaud from Lutte Ouvrière and Jacques Cheminade from Solidarity and Progress.
On 22 April 2012, François Hollande won 29% of the vote with Nicolas Sarkozy winning 27%. Both candidates advanced to the second round of the election, which Hollande later won with 52% of the vote.[1]
Results
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| First round 22 April 2012 |
Second round 6 May 2012 | ||||||||||
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| Candidate | Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||||
| François Hollande | 10,272,705 | 28.63% | 18,000,668 | 51.64% | |||||||
| Nicolas Sarkozy | 9,753,629 | 27.18% | 16,860,685 | 48.36% | |||||||
| Marine Le Pen | 6,421,426 | 17.90% | |||||||||
| Jean-Luc Mélenchon | 3,984,822 | 11.10% | |||||||||
| François Bayrou | 3,275,122 | 9.13% | |||||||||
| Eva Joly | 828,345 | 2.31% | |||||||||
| Nicolas Dupont-Aignan | 643,907 | 1.79% | |||||||||
| Philippe Poutou | 411,160 | 1.15% | |||||||||
| Nathalie Arthaud | 202,548 | 0.56% | |||||||||
| Jacques Cheminade | 89,545 | 0.25% | |||||||||
| Total votes | 35,883,209 | 100% | 34,861,353 | 100% | |||||||
2012 French Presidential Election Media
- François Hollande - Janvier 2012 (cropped) for ITN.jpg
François Hollande - Janvier 2012 (cropped) for ITN
- Ex-presidente Nicolas Sarkozy no Palácio do Planalto 2012 (1) (cropped).jpg
Ex-presidente Nicolas Sarkozy no Palácio do Planalto 2012 (1) (cropped)
- Élection présidentielle française de 2012 T1 carte départements & régions.svg
Élection présidentielle française de 2012 T1 carte départements & régions
- Élection présidentielle française de 2012 T2 carte départements & régions.svg
Élection présidentielle française de 2012 T2 carte départements & régions
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The candidates of the Ecology primary sitting together
- Hollande 089 (cropped).JPG
Réunion publique du candidat François Hollande à Reims.
- Meeting Sarkozy, place de la Concorde, 15 avril 2012 (3).jpg
Sarkozy rally at Place de la Concorde
- Front de Gauche - Fête de l'Humanité 2012 - 002 (cropped).jpg
Stand du Front de Gauche lors de la fête de l'Humanité 2012.
- Francois Bayrou-IMG 4432 (cropped).JPG
François Bayrou at the meeting at Silo, Marseille
References
- ↑ "Hollande Ousts Sarkozy in French Presidential Election". The New York Times. 6 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
Other websites
- The Constitutional council's duties relating to the presidential election Archived 2012-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
- Opinion poll tracker with data Archived 2020-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
- NSD: European Election Database – France Archived 2017-02-24 at the Wayback Machine publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1990–2012
- A clickable map showing elections results by region, department, and commune on the website of L'Humanité