Globally all of France
FN 27
UMP LR 27
PS 24
There will be a second round everywhere. FN didn’t get 50% in any region.
Sarko speaking now about 49% abstention rate. Calling on all to vote in round 2. All that want alternance and real change. Refuses any accommodation... refusing all fusion with anti democratic, anti republican candidates. Asking people to
Vote for candidates of les Republicains (former UMP).
The socialists lost everything everywhere. Took an historic shellacking.
Marine now railing and name calling . She personally got only 49.3% in her region. She, too, will have a runoff.
Please stop pinging me. Thank you
Why is she railing? Is she saying the election was fixed? Or just upset because she underperformed.
That's a stunning result -- the ruling Socialists in third, UMP finishing just barely even (or a whisper behind) the National Front. Thanks Cincinna.
FN leader Marine Le Pen, who stood in the northern region of Nord-Pas-De-Calais-Picardie, and her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen, who stood in Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur in the south, both looked to have won more than 40% of the vote, polls predicted, breaking previous records for the party.
Marine Le Pen said it was a “magnificent result” which proved the FN was “without contest the first party of France”.
The BBC reports the exit poll showing FN at about 31 percent, ahead of Sarkozy’s Republicans at 27 percent, the Socialists at 23 percent.
The BBC analysis is that for three elections in a row, the National Front is the leading party in France.
In this election, they have achieved record breaking high numbers.
Marine Le Pen only got a vote percentage in the teens in first round in northern France five years ago. She got 49 percent in the first round this time around and looks poised to win the majority percentage in the second round next week easily with that high a percentage.