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Le Pen leads round one by 17.4 points; at this stage, the poll leader went on to come first in two of the last three first rounds

Where the polls stood 5 months before each of the last three presidential first rounds, and what happened next. The biggest move from this point: France Unbowed in 2022, +13.6 points between the polls and the result.

Then and on polling day

The average of the polls around the same point in each cycle (each pollster counted once), the line to polling day, and the result. The dashed line is this point.

2022 25 October 2021
5 months before polling day · 54 polls

Ensemble (Macron camp) led by 6.6. Ensemble (Macron camp) came first by 4.7 on 10 April.

0 10 20 30 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
Ensemble (Macron camp) 25.7 27.9 +2.2
National Rally 19.1 23.2 +4.1
France Unbowed 8.4 22.0 +13.6
Reconquête 15.4 7.1 −8.3
Republicans 9.9 4.8 −5.1
Greens 7.9 4.6 −3.3
2017 7 November 2016
5 months before polling day · 8 polls

National Rally led by 8.7. Ensemble (Macron camp) came first instead, by 2.7.

0 10 20 30 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
National Rally 28.8 21.3 −7.5
Ensemble (Macron camp) 12.5 24.0 +11.5
Republicans 20.1 20.0 −0.1
France Unbowed 13.4 19.6 +6.2
Socialists 9.8 6.4 −3.4
Centre (UDF, MoDem) 9.2 –
2012 7 November 2011
5 months before polling day · 7 polls

Socialists led by 6.7. Socialists came first by 1.5 on 22 April.

0 10 20 30 40 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
Socialists 33.1 28.6 −4.5
Republicans 26.4 27.2 +0.8
National Rally 17.4 17.9 +0.5
France Unbowed 5.9 11.1 +5.2
Centre (UDF, MoDem) 6.5 9.1 +2.6
Greens – 2.3

If the polls move as they did

Today's average, then each party moved by as much as it did between this point and polling day in each past cycle. Where a party did not stand, or polled under another name we cannot match, the cell is blank.

CandidateToday As in 2022 As in 2017 As in 2012
Le Pen National Rally 34.2 38.3 26.7 34.7
Mélenchon France Unbowed 16.8 30.4 23.0 22.0
Philippe Ensemble (Macron camp) 14.3 16.5 25.8
Glucksmann Socialists 13.4 10.2 10.0 8.9
Retailleau Republicans 7.6 2.5 7.5 8.4
Zemmour Reconquête 3.8 0.0
Tondelier Greens 2.9 0.0
Dupont-Aignan Sovereigntists 2.1 0.8 4.4 3.1

Le Pen stays ahead in every one. A party's move in one cycle belongs to that campaign; this shows the size of change that has happened from here, not a forecast. Our forecast →

How this is worked out

For each past election we take every national voting-intention poll published in the fortnight either side of the same point (three weeks, or five where polls were sparse), average each pollster's polls, then average the pollsters. France's figures are the first round of the presidential election, by political family, so 2012's Socialist is Hollande and 2027's is whoever stands.

Polls: Opinion polling for the 2012 French presidential election, Opinion polling for the 2017 French presidential election, Opinion polling for the 2022 French presidential election, Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Results: the national electoral authorities. Today: our poll average, updated with every poll.

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