French presidential election 2012

French presidential election, 2012

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Nominee François Hollande Nicolas Sarkozy Party PS UMP Popular vote 18,000,668 16,860,685 Percentage 51.6% 48.4%
Map of results by communes.
President before election Nicolas Sarkozy UMP President-elect François Hollande PS

Nicolas Sarkozy
UMP

François Hollande
PS

A presidential election was held in France on 22 April 2012 (or 21 April in some overseas departments and territories), with a second round run-off held on 6 May (or 5 May for those same territories) to elect the President of France (who is also ex officio one of the two joint heads of state of Andorra, a sovereign state). The incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was running for a second successive and, under the terms of the constitution, final term in the election.

The first round ended with the selection of François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy as second round participants, as neither of them received a majority of votes cast in the first round. Hollande won the runoff with 51.64% of the vote to Sarkozy's 48.36%.

The presidential election was followed by a legislative election in June.

Source: List of candidates · First round result · Second round result

More than 46 million people were eligible to vote.

François Hollande received 51.64% of the votes, while Nicolas Sarkozy secured 48.36% of the votes in the second round. Sarkozy became the first one-term president since Valéry Giscard d'Estaing lost to François Mitterrand in 1981.

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