VOTE PLACE. There are only one or two hours left to vote, that your polling station closes at 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. In order to be certain and to vote on time, you are free to check the opening hours of your polling station on this page. Find on this page all the information you need to vote.
What is the address and what are the hours of your polling station? Find below all the essential information about your polling station. To do this, nothing could be simpler: enter the name or postal code of your municipality in the fields below to find where and until what time you can vote this Sunday, April 24 for the second round of the presidential election. .
[Mis à jour le 24 avril 2022 à 18h03] Last straight line for voters and assessors during this second round of the presidential election. At 5 p.m., the turnout was 63.23%, which means that nearly 37% of citizens registered on the electoral lists had not yet voted. There is only one hour left in rural areas and in small towns to vote, and barely two hours in metropolises such as Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Strasbourg or Lille, where polling stations have remained open until 8 p.m. for a few years. . Beware of possible traffic jams in the queues at the end of the day, which could complicate the vote for the latest arrivals. If in doubt about the hours of your polling station, do not hesitate to check that you have the correct address and that you have the correct closing time in mind, using the search bar above.
After the closing of the polling stations, at 7 p.m. or 8 p.m., the counting will logically begin, according to very strict rules. If the ballot box is filled throughout the day by all the envelopes deposited by the voters, it is never opened before the official closing of the polling station, either at 7 p.m. or at 8 p.m. It takes place in several stages, very formal, in the presence of the delegates of each candidate as well as the assessors and the secretary of the office, all under the eye of the president.
What is the closing time of my polling station?
Please note, on April 24, not all polling stations close at the same time. In the same municipality, all the offices will close at the same time but, even if it is a national election, you must vote in the polling station to which you are attached. Differences exist in the big cities, on prefectural order. In the vast majority of cities, polling stations close their doors at 19 ‘o clock on Sunday. However, the metropolises are playing extra time until 8 p.m., as in Paris, Lille, Bordeaux, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes or Nice. A differentiation made due to a larger number of voters in these territories. The same is true for the voters of Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and French Polynesia, summoned from Saturday. Voting generally closes at 7 p.m. local time, although the Minister of Foreign Affairs may extend the closing time in some territories to a maximum of 8 p.m.
The first results will be published from 8 p.m., closing time of the last polling stations. Watch out for the crowds at the end of the day. In the first round, some voters had faced long queues, especially in Paris, some even giving up and depriving themselves of their right to vote in the face of the crowds. The town halls also advise voting before 4 p.m. in many large cities.
How is the counting done?
Initially, the signatures are counted, then the envelopes. The two numbers must match. The envelopes are then grouped in packets of 100 and each packet is placed in an envelope, which are then distributed among the various counting tables. A first teller then opens the envelope, a second reads the name aloud and the votes are counted by two different tellers on sheets. At the end of the procedure, the counts of the votes, whether they are cast, blank, null and by candidate, are carried out, before being recorded in the minutes. The results are then announced in public. A long and very supervised procedure.
For polling stations where voters vote on electronic machines, the results are displayed directly and more quickly, but still under the control of several people.
Paper ballot or electronic voting?
A ballot in an envelope or a button on a machine? To choose its candidate during the presidential election, all the communes do not adopt the same mode of vote. While the vast majority of polling stations affix the various ballots and envelopes at the entrance before each voter goes through the voting booth, a few dozen municipalities have opted for an electronic system for several years. Thus, behind a curtain, the person voting must press the button corresponding to the candidate they want to select it, then press again to confirm their choice. According to a 2014 Senate report, just sixty cities are concerned, including a few major cities such as Boulogne-Billancourt, Bourges, Brest, Le Havre, Le Mans and Mulhouse.
Why is it not yet possible to vote online?
The question of the possibility of a completely dematerialized vote carried out remotely, without going to the polls, comes up in the public debate at each election. For the moment, France has never set up this entirely electronic vote. The only exception: French people living abroad were authorized to do so during the 2017 legislative elections, but the procedure was finally canceled for fear of a cyberattack. This is the main reason why a face-to-face vote remains preferable for the moment: it is very complicated to ensure the cybersecurity of so much data, on the scale of a country like France. Estonia, for example, has already tried such a system, but the country has only 1.3 million inhabitants. Among the security challenges for the servers that would be used during an online vote at the national level, it is necessary to be able to verify the identity of each voter, while ensuring that their vote is anonymous. It would also be necessary to be sure that the data goes back to the Ministry of the Interior, responsible for counting the ballots, in complete safety. At the moment, too many risk factors. France has therefore made the choice so far of a classic ballot, with a trip to the polling station, either in person or by proxy for those who could not travel.