French presidential election, 2017

2012 ←

23 April and 7 May 2017

→ 2022



Nominee	Benoît Hamon	François Fillon	Marine Le Pen
Party	PS	LR	FN


Nominee	Emmanuel Macron	Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Party	EM	FI

Incumbent President

François Hollande
PS

The first round of the 2017 French presidential election will be held on 23 April 2017. Should no candidate win a majority, a run-off election between the top two candidates will be held on 7 May 2017.

Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party is eligible to run for a second term, but declined to do so on 1 December 2016. Benoît Hamon won the nomination for the Socialist Party in the presidential primaries on 29 January 2017.

According to opinion polls, François Fillon for The Republicans and Marine Le Pen for the National Front led in the first round of polling in 2016 and the start of 2017. By late January and early February 2017, a shifting and tightening of the polls began, with Emmanuel Macron for the new En Marche! organization potentially making the second round. Polls for the second round of voting suggest either Fillon or Macron would beat Le Pen and that Macron would beat Fillon.

The President of the French Republic is elected to a five-year term in a two-round system promulgated under Article 7 of the Constitution; if no candidate secures absolute majority (i.e., including blank and null ballots) of votes in the first round, a second round will be held two weeks later between the two candidates who received the most votes. In 2017, the first and second rounds are planned for 23 April and 7 May, respectively.

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