The Dordogne, department that voted the most in the presidential election

48.8 million French people were called to the polls this Sunday for the presidential election.

The five departments that voted the most at 5 p.m. are Dordogne (75.26%), Aveyron (73.93%), Gers (73.71%), Haute-Loire (73.53%) and Pyrénées-Atlantiques (72.78%).

The five departments which mobilized the least at 5 p.m. were Haute-Corse (51.23%), Seine-Saint-Denis (51.71%), Paris (52.17%), Essonne (56 .19%) and Corse-du-Sud (58.48%).

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In several overseas territories, where voting began on Saturday, there was a sharp drop in turnout in New Caledonia and Polynesia, which voted in advance, but it is up slightly in Guadeloupe and Martinique.

The highest abstention rates are found in the Pacific: in French Polynesia, only 23.78% of voters had turned up at 5 p.m., according to the High Commission's estimate (compared to 43.97% who turned up). moved in 2017, at the same time).

The Ministry of the Interior communicated a national participation rate of 65% against 69.4% five years ago, much higher (+6.5 points) than it was in 2002 which saw record abstention .

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