ABSTENTION. The abstention rate for this legislative election exceeds 53%, it is more than in the first round, but less than in the second round of 2017. All the figures.
[Mis à jour le 20 juin 2022 à 01h02] We know the total number of abstentions during this second round of legislative elections 2022. He’s from 53.70% according to the total results released by the Interior Ministry overnight. The participation in the second round of the legislative elections therefore did not achieve a sad record this time this Sunday, June 19, 2022 since the mark of 2017 remains far away. At the time, for this same second round, 57.36% of voters had not gone to the polling stations. The 2017 record is therefore not broken, but abstention remains stronger than in the first round of 2022.
Over the course of the day, feedback from the Ministry of the Interior had set the trend. At 5 p.m., for this second round of the legislative elections, the abstention rate was 61.89%. A figure that had already confirmed the concerns, the French shunned the ballot box this Sunday, June 19. The three departments which had voted the least this Sunday at 5 p.m., and where the abstention rate was the highest were Seine-Saint-Denis (74.77%), Moselle (69.47%), and Val of Oise (69.20%). Conversely, voters showed more interest in this election in the departments of Lot, Vienne or Dordogne, the three departments with the lowest abstention rate at 5 p.m.
The political context, the duel which has arisen between Nupes and the coalition Ensemble pour la majority presidential, the emergence of the RN in several constituencies but also the persistent high temperatures in the northern part and the east of France are all unknowns about voter mobilization. Already in 2017, in the wake of Emmanuel Macron’s presidential election, more than one in two voters abstained in the second round, a record with 57.36% abstention in the wake of a already unattractive first round for many voters. The abstention rate there had been more than 51%, which marked the highest score in legislative or presidential elections since 1958 and the beginning of the Fifth Republic.