French presidential election, 2017

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Leader	Segolene Royal	Pierre Lellouche	Herve Morin	Bruno Gollnisch	Jacky Henin
Party	PS	UP	MD	FN	PC
First Round	30.7%	28.8%	12.1%	10.6%	10.1%
Second Round	50.61%	49.39%	--	--	--

The 2017 French presidential election was held to elect the president of France for a five-year term. The winner was incumbent president Segolene Royal.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Issues 3 Election results 4 Aftermath 5 See Also 6 External links

Overview

Segolene Royal of the Socialist Party (PS) defeated Popular Union (UP) candidate, Pierre Lellouche, in a second round of voting after no single candidate managed to achieve an absolute majority in the first round. The presidential election was held simultaneously with a parliamentary election.

Issues

(Worries over Islam, Immigration, the future of NATO, Post-Putin Russia, terrorism, the cost of the Welfare State, stagnation of the European economy, and the declining value of the Euro.)

Election results

French presidential election, 2017
Candidate		Party	1st Round	2nd Round
	Segolene Royal (I)	Socialist Party (Parti socialiste)	30.7%	50.61%
	Pierre Lellouche	Popular Union (Union populaire)	28.8%	49.39%
	Herve Morin	Democratic Movement (Mouvement democrate)	12.1%
	Bruno Gollnisch	National Front (Front national)	10.6%
	Jacky Henin	Communist Party (Parti communiste)	10.1%
	Roseline Vachetta	Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue communiste revolutionnaire)	2.0%
	Veronique Besse	Movement for France (Mouvement pour la France)	1.7%
	Cecile Duflot	The Greens (Les Verts)	1.7%
		Others	2.3%
Total			100%	100%
First round results source: No Winner on First Turn Second round results source: Royal re-elected to third term; Grand Coalition announced

Aftermath

The subsequent UP-PS grand coalition saw Lellouche appointed Prime Minister by Royal, and signaled the end of the broad left PS led coalition that had governed France for the past decade.

See Also

• French parliamentary election, 2017
• Royal assassination attempt
• International elections
• United States general elections

External links

• No Winner on First Turn
• Royal re-elected to third term; Grand Coalition announced

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