According to the exit polls released for Sunday’s French legislative elections, the far-right party of Marine Le Pen (National Rally) is projected to win 34% of the vote, followed by the left’s New People’s Party coalition with 28.1%, while French President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party is forecast to garner 20.3%.
The polling stations in France closed at 19.00 GMT, and the official results will be gradually released through the night.
Based on the data by the French interior ministry, the turnout rate appears to be significantly high, as by noon Paris time, 25.9% of registered voters had cast their ballots, compared to 18.43% at the same time in the 2022 parliamentary elections and 19.25% in 2017.
The most recent polling numbers suggest approximately 65% of voters will turn out and that nearly one-third will vote for Le Pen’s party.
A second round of voting is scheduled to take place next Sunday, July 7. In this round, candidates from the two largest parties in each electoral district, as well as candidates who receive more than 12.5% of the registered voters in each district, will advance.
There is a total of 577 single-member electoral districts in France, each with generally between 100,000 and 120,000 registered voters.
