ABSTENTION. The level of participation is one of the important components of the second round of this 2022 presidential election. At noon, this Sunday, April 24, the abstention rate stood at 73.59%.
Here is the first official figure for this second round of the 2022 presidential election: the abstention rate is 73.59% at 12 p.m., according to the statement made and communicated a few moments ago by the services of the Ministry of l ‘Interior. This is a high figure, which is intended to reduce significantly over the day, since the ballot does not close until 8 p.m. this Sunday in the largest municipalities in France. Remember that at the same time, during the 1st round just two weeks ago, the abstention rate was 74.52% in France. Another figure to bear in mind: the abstention rate in the second round of the presidential election at noon, 5 years ago, amounted to 71.77% exactly.
This 2022 presidential election will quite certainly be affected by a high level of abstention, as the main polling institutes had estimated this week. Political observers have considered for several days that the level of abstention will be, this evening, a very structuring factor in the election, it will say a lot about the way in which the French consider the democratic exercise of the vote. Note that the services of the place Beauvau, which are in charge of the organization and the proper conduct of the ballot, give updated rates of participation and abstention at 5 p.m. and then at 8 p.m. Later in the night, the level of abstention is consolidated with final figures, once all the data from the polling stations has been tallied.