PARTICIPATION. Voters were once again called upon to vote for the second round of the legislative elections this Sunday, June 19, 2022. Did we vote more than last week? Numbers
[Mis à jour le 19 juin 2022 à 15h57] Will voters go to the polls more for the second round of legislative elections? The turnout at noon is 18.99%, said the Ministry of the Interior this Sunday, June 19, 2022. This figure is very slightly up from the first round, since they were 18.43% to have vote at the same time last week. However, this ballot seems to be of less and less interest to the French who can vote, which suggests such a weak mobilization at 5 p.m. However, remember that this first figure is only a first glimpse of the mobilization of voters. Indeed, the polling stations are open until 8 p.m. in the big cities, and can close at 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. in certain municipalities.
As usual, the level of participation is not the same everywhere, far from it. In Seine Saint-Denis, the turnout was 8.88%, while it reached 29.05% in the Lot, the department where the most votes were voted at midday. In Paris, the participation amounted to noon at 10.81%. Will the heat wave play a role in the French vote? They obviously weren’t much more numerous to go to the polling stations in the cool hours while the temperatures are still bearable. Will we be heading for a new record, a week after a historically low participation in the 1st round on June 12, 2022?
Similar to Round 1?
In view of this first point on the day, we are on the same trend as last week during the first round. At noon, only 18.43% of voters had gone to the polling stations last Sunday according to the count made and published by the Ministry of the Interior. This was almost a point less than in 2017 at the same time, when the participation rate was then 19.24%. Confirmation at 5 p.m. with 39.42% participation in the first round, 1.3 points less than in the last legislative elections. By transmitting the official results of the first round of the legislative elections, the Ministry of the Interior had effectively disclosed on the night of Sunday June 12 to Monday June 13 another important information, that of the final participation rate in the 1st round: 47.51 %. This extremely low score wipes out the record for the first round of the 2017 legislative elections: 48.7%.
Throughout the day, the feedback on the turnout clearly reflected a lack of mobilization of voters for these legislative elections 2022. Will it be the same this Sunday during the 2nd round after a week marked by attempts by qualified candidates to ring the mobilization to convince the undecided to go to the polling stations on Sunday June 19 for the second round of these elections? legislative? In 2017, the participation rate in the 2nd round was synonymous with very high abstention with a historically low participation rate for legislative elections: 43.17%.