Will the second round of municipal elections be marked by an historic abstention? At 5 p.m. this Sunday, only 34.67% of the voters had gone to the polls. A figure down 4 points from the first round (38.77%) … And a plunge compared to the 2014 election, where some 52.36% of voters went to the polls at 5 p.m.
LIVE – Municipal elections: turnout was 34.67% at 5 p.m., down 4 points from the first round
In the first round, on March 15, many French people did not want to go to the polls because of the health crisis that was starting in France. After many procrastination within the executive, the confinement had also been announced by Emmanuel Macron the next day, which had implied a postponement of the second round.
Anti-abstention provisions
Three months later, the epidemic situation has certainly improved significantly. But not enough to convince voters to return to the polling stations. However, the government had taken numerous steps to try to ensure the safety of voters and to improve voter turnout as much as possible. The rules for voting by proxy have, for example, been extended, allowing the same proxy to have two proxies instead of one usually.
This Sunday, June 28, only 13% of cities organized their second round … Including Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse or Lille. In the capital, 23.89% of Parisians had moved at 5 p.m., against 38.60% in 2014.
In total, this represented some 16.5 million voters, or about one in three voters.
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