A little less worse, but hardly. No more than the first, the second round of regional did not succeed in mobilizing voters, who shunned the ballot box en masse. Abstention reached 65.3% (compared to 66.7% in the first round), one of the worst scores for a national level election under the Fifth Republic. So much so that the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, announced earlier this week the establishment of a fact-finding mission and a public consultation, intended to understand the causes of voters’ disinterest.
Corsicans less demobilized than the others
Unsurprisingly, the departments which voted the most or the least on Sunday are essentially the same as in the first round. The participation exceeded 50% only in the two Corsican departments, which voted for the nationalist candidates, and Seine-Saint-Denis and Moselle remain the red lanterns with 73.5% and 72.9% of abstention . Compared to the first round, however, there was a slight jump in some departments of Ile-de-France, in particular Val-de-Marne (more than three participation points more). Overall, participation was highest in Corsica and in the south-eastern quarter.
Up to 87% abstention in some cities
At the municipal level, the abstention rate varied from 0 to over 93%. You can find the details of the participation in the municipalities of your department on our interactive map:
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As in the first round, the abstention record is held by the village of La Chapelle-sur-Chézy, in the Aisne near Château-Thierry, ravaged by thunderstorms and torrential rains on the eve of the first round: abstention reached 100% in the first round and 93.4% in the second. Apart from this particular case, the towns which voted the least are Vaulx-en-Velin in the Rhône (87.4% abstention) and Clichy-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis (86.6%).
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