French election first round results 2017 – as they come in

Guardian ^ | 4/23/17

[Timpanagos1]

Voters in France went to the polls on Sunday in the first round of the presidential election. The top two candidates go into a run-off in a fortnight. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are narrow favourites, but François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon trailed them tightly in the polls. Find out who’s ahead and who’s winning where

[hoosiermama]

Thanks for keeping us up to date.

[Timpanagos1]

Macron 23.7%
Le Pen 21.7%

[HarleyLady27]

zerohedge ‎@zerohedge LE PEN AT 24.9%, MACRON AT 21.1%: INTERIOR MINISTRY AT 8:13PM 12:18 PM - 23 Apr 2017

[Bon mots]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

*BUMP* Thanks for posting!

[fidelis]

Bumpin’ for later...

[FreeAtlanta]

Another Pajama Boy. Reminds me of our local runoff election in Georgia; our pajama boy leftist Assoff vs. Karen Handle.

France

Georgia 6th district

[Mozilla]

https://www.youtube.com/#/user/france24english

[Leep]

The only real men remaining are not men.

[Disestablishmentarian]

Sad.

Obama’s candidate, Macron, will almost certainly win the next round.

One commentator on BBC said this French vote is like America in 2008—voting for “Hope.” He said if things don’t go well (and they won’t) Le Pen may be able to pull a Trump in 5 years when France may mimic our 2016 election.

Pass the Chablis.

[HarleyLady27]

From Bloomberg: LE PEN AT 25.2%, MACRON AT 21.1%: INTERIOR MINISTRY AT 8:21PM

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-french-election/

[2ndDivisionVet]

“La Marseillaise”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqZ4GQ5ZPME

[WildHighlander57]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3546609/posts?page=1#1

It’s LePen vs Macron

H/t countrecount

[miss marmelstein]

Yeah, I’m watching the BBC as well. The little guy is certainly convinced it’s over and the pollsters are congratulating themselves. Makes me even more hopeful she’ll pull it out.

Fillon just conceded and threw his support to the pajama boy.

France is just a more left-wing country than ours.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

https://www.google.com/search?q=Marine+Le+Pen&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[Kenny]

OFFICIAL: 9.2 million votes counted, Le Pen 25%, Macron 21% https://t.co/lkqZxWAaQs pic.twitter.com/paqYsXnAGk— Westmonster (@WestmonsterUK) April 23, 2017

[miss marmelstein]

Ok, thanks. The BBC is not reporting this - not that I trust them.

[Rusty0604]

If France can last five years.

[PghBaldy]

Looks like the street mobs are active tonight. Trashing Paris now assuming this is live https://www.rt.com/on-air/385800-paris-protest-presidential-election/