Macron Wins Landslide Victory Among French Voters in Morocco

According to the Ipsos institute, the incumbent president won the second round of the French presidential election on Sunday, April 24, 2022, with 58.54% of the vote against his rival Marine Le Pen, who received 41.46% of the votes. Abstention reached 28.2%, an increase of 2.8 points compared to 2017 (25.44%). Emmanuel Macron is thus re-elected for a second term. How many votes did he obtain in Morocco?

With 87.4% of the votes (against 92.2% in the second round of the 2017 presidential election), Emmanuel Macron largely outpaces his Rassemblement National opponent, Marine Le Pen, who obtained 12.6% of the votes of the French in Morocco (compared to only 7.8% in the same election in 2017) in the six polling stations set up in Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech, Agadir, Fez and Tangier, according to the provisional results collected from sources close to the French embassy in Rabat, cited by Le360. The outgoing president achieved the highest score in Fez (92% of the votes) against 28% for Marine Le Pen (reached in Agadir).

In this second round, 38,381 French people in Morocco were registered on the electoral roll. The abstention rate is 55.9% (compared to 46.9% in 2017). As for the participation rate, it reached 44.1% (16,922 voters). In the first round, it was the candidate of La France Insoumise (FI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon who came out on top with 40.2% of the votes.