More than 3 million blank or invalid tickets… Lowest turnout turnout in 53 years
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(Paris = Yonhap News) Correspondent Hye-ran Hyun = This year’s French presidential election, which ended with the success of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term, can also be characterized by ‘low turnout’ and ‘many invalid votes’.
Although there are only two candidates to choose from, President Macron and Marine Le Pen National Coalition (RN) candidate, it is read as an expression of their will to elect neither of them.
On the 24th (local time), centrist President Macron and far-right candidate Le Pen faced off once more for the first time in five years, and the turnout in the final was 72.0%, 1.7 percentage points lower than in the first round.
This means that 13.66 million people, or 28% of the 48.75 million registered voters, abstained without going to the polls, which is regarding 360,000 more voters than those who voted for Le Pen candidate.
It is the second lowest turnout in the history of France since 1965, when France introduced the runoff system.
The lowest turnout ever in the runoff was 68.9% in 1969, when the first president of the French Fifth Republic, Charles de Gaulle, resigned.
At that time, Georges Pompidou from the right wing and Alain Poert from the left wing were nominated and advanced to the finals.
In this year’s presidential runoff, the turnout was significantly lower in overseas territories than in mainland France.
The daily Le Monde reported that turnout was below 50% in 91 out of 129 communes on French overseas territories, including Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte.
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Even if they went to the polling place, 2.23 million and 790,000 voters were counted, respectively, with blank or invalid ballots. This means that 6.4% of all voters cast blank votes and 2.3% voted invalid.
This ratio is lower than when Macron and Le Pen first met in the 2017 runoff. Five years ago, the percentage of voters who submitted blank votes was 8.5% and the percentage who submitted invalid votes was 3.0%.
On the paper that was invalidated due to graffiti, damage, etc., “Neither side” was written with a pen, or the names of President Macron and Candidate Le Pen were merged into one by tearing the paper.
Among the votes deemed invalid by the Ministry of Home Affairs, there were also votes with the names of the representatives of the far-left Jean-Luc Melanchon, who did not submit to France (LFI), who failed to advance to the final by placing third in the first round of voting.
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