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This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions.It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1,000 (a margin of less than 0.1 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0.1% ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than ...
The highest percentage of votes won in the second round was by Chirac in 2002 with 82.21%, followed by Macron in 2017 with 66.10%. The 2017 second round was the first in which neither candidate represented a major parliamentary party.
In last Sunday’s initial vote, any candidate who recieved more than 50 per cent of the vote in each of the 571 seats up for grabs was automatically declared the victor – a result secured by ...
Results showed some recovery to the Socialist Party as well (most notably, in Occitanie). Before the elections, pundits discussed the possibility of the National Rally winning a region ( Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur ), but they failed to do it and underperformed compared to their polling.
Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election on Wednesday morning, as he claimed victory in Pennsylvania, according to a projection by the Associated Press at 2:24 a.m. He won ...
ISIS seized the city of Raqqa in Syria January 2014, and it was declared the capital of the caliphate and residents were forced to adhere to the group’s harsh 7th-century style brand of Islamism.
Turnout in the first round of the legislative elections was exceptionally high, including 2.7 million proxy voting requests, with pollsters estimating the final turnout to be the highest for the first round of a legislative election since 1997, [5] which was confirmed in the provisional results with turnout at 66.71%.
Presidential elections were held in Benin on 5 March 2006. Long-term president Mathieu Kérékou, who had led the country for all but four years since 1972, was barred from running for a third term. The constitution not only stipulated an absolute two-term limit, but required presidents to be 70 years old or younger when taking office ...