Martin Lange, edited by Juline Garnier 10:32 a.m., April 11, 2022
Nearly twelve million voters did not go to the polls this Sunday.
A quarter of voters were on weekends, even on vacation, or simply disinterested in politics.
The abstention record of 2002 was not reached this year, but it is approaching ballot after ballot.
What is the profile of these voters?
ANALYSIS
25% of registered voters abstained on Sunday for the first round of the presidential election.
A high score, but which does not reach the 2002 record. It remains to be seen who did not vote, and why.
Rejection and disinterestedness in politics seem to be the main causes of this abstention.
These voters quite closely resemble abstainers in previous elections.
Moreover, more than 80% of them had already abstained in 2017. The typical profile of abstentionism is young and from the working classes.
He lives in a small town or in a very large city.
25-34 year olds less mobilized than 18-24 year olds
In detail, women voted less than men.
Surprising too, it is the young working people, the 25-34 year olds, who are the least mobilized in front of the 18-24 year olds.
At the level of socio-professional categories, workers and the unemployed are those who least went to the polls.
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These fringes of the population are rather favorable to Marine Le Pen, according to the polls.
The FN candidate should therefore try everything to mobilize them for the second round.
To qualify all the same, since the surveys show that it is the supporters of the PS and the Greens who moved the least yesterday.
The profile of abstainers will become clearer in the coming hours and days, with the publication of the final results.