The legislative abstention has only increased since the 1993 election, going from 31 % that year to 51.3 % in 2017. It first affected young people and popular categories.
Le Monde with AFP
Participation in the first round of the legislative elections reached 18.43 %, Sunday June 12 at noon, according to the Ministry of the Interior. A figure down 0.8 points compared to 2017, where it was 19.24 %.
It is also in clear decrease compared to the first round of the presidential election 2022, where it reached 25.48 % at noon, and is lower than that of the legislative elections of 2012 at the same time (21.06 %). The lot is the department that had voted the most at noon Sunday (27.8 %), ahead of Cantal (26.35 %), Jura (25.69 %), Dordogne (25.19 %) and Gers (24.86 %). The lowest participation was recorded in Seine-Saint-Denis with 9.85 %.
The dreaded massive abstention – beyond 50 % of the 48 million voters – could arbitrate the match by proxy between Emmanuel Macron, re -elected for a second term a few weeks ago, and Jean -Luc Mélenchon, arrived in third place in the presidential election and now leader of the left. On the far right, the national rally of Marine Le Pen posted, for its part, the ambitions measured.
On the left, the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) presents itself at the shoulder in the elbow in the voting intentions with together !, Coalition of parties close to the current presidential majority: the Republic En Marche, the Modem and Horizons in particular. In the second round Sunday, June 19, voice reserves could be lacking in the Nuts to hope to overthrow the current majority, unless a strong mobilization of the abstentionists of the first round.
The legislative abstention has only increased since the 1993 election, going from 31 % that year to 51.3 % in 2017. It first affected young people and popular categories.