Emmanuel Macron won 66.1%, Marine Le Pen 33.9% in French vote: final results

[DonViejo]

Emmanuel Macron won 66.1 percent of the vote against 33.9 percent for far-right leader Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential election, final results from the interior ministry showed on Monday.

Macron received a total of 20,753,797 votes, compared with 10,644,118 for Marine Le Pen, the ministry announced the day after the landmark election.

The abstention rate was 25.44 percent, the highest since the presidential election in 1969.

The interior ministry on Sunday reported a record number of blank and invalid ballots, accounting for nine percent of all registered voters, compared with two percent in the first round.

Together with the abstention rate, that means that one in three voters declined to choose between the two candidates.

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[2naSalit]

1. Excellent smack down!

We should have such a spectacular victory! But I doubt we'll even have another election after this year is done.

[Turbineguy]

2. It must have been Trump's edorsement

That moved them from 60-40.

[triron]

3. But "exit polls are always wrong".

[WhiteTara]

4. It seems that 1/3 of the world's population

is crazy and stupid.

[WinstonSmith00]

5. Less than 1/4 of Americans voted for Trump

If we had voter turn out like they do in France progressives would be dominating.

[dalton99a]

6. Helluva beatdown.