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Presidential elections were held in France on 23 April and 7 May 2017. 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.
After the first round of the 2002 presidential election, in which opinion polls failed to anticipate Jean-Marie Le Pen advancing to the second round, the French polling commission (Commission nationale des sondages) recommended that pollsters not publish second-round surveys before the results of the first round. However, understanding that ...
This page lists public opinion polls conducted for the 2017 French presidential election, which was held on 23 April 2017 with a run-off on 7 May 2017, within individual regions. Unless otherwise noted, all polls listed below are compliant with the regulations of the national polling commission ( Commission nationale des sondages ) and utilize ...
French stocks and the euro rallied Monday after results from the first round of elections suggested the far right will inflict a heavy defeat on President Emmanual Macron but fall short of winning ...
There were two national elections in France in 2017, 2017 French presidential election in April–May; 2017 French legislative election in June
There have been eleven presidential elections in France since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958.. Originally the president was elected by the Collège des Notables (an assembly of "notable electors") that included around 80,000 county and city/town councillors (who had been elected locally).
First elected in 2017, Macron was then a successful 39-year-old political newbie. He sought to make the labor market more flexible and passed new rules to make it more difficult for the unemployed ...
NSD: European Election Database – France Archived 24 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1993–2007; Database of national election results by commune since 1848, with associated socio-economic data (in French), compiled under the direction of the economists ...