Results will come in very quickly, we will know minutes after the polls close at 2 Eastern Time. We may tease the French about this or that, but they have an incredibly efficient voting and tabulating system, takes them 20 minutes to count everything. (Helps that the whole country is in one time zone).
And, according to my brother-in-law (French), you MUST present your photo ID.
A link for results, you will have to click each region on the map for them.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/elections/resultats
Click on “Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie” at the top end of the map to see how Marine Le Pen did.
Click on “Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur” in the lower part of the map to see how Marion Marechal Le Pen did.
Canadian elections come in very quickly as well. It helps to have only one race per ballot.
I suspect that they probably begin counting a couple of hours before polls closed and then crank the last hour or two’s worth of votes through immediately after the polls close At least that is how it seems to work up here