2007 French presidential election

2007 French presidential election

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Turnout	83.77% (first round) 12.17 pp 83.97% (second round) 4.26 pp
Nominee Nicolas Sarkozy Ségolène Royal Party UMP PS Popular vote 18,983,138 16,790,440 Percentage 53.06% 46.94%
First round results by department and region Second round results by department and region
President before election Jacques Chirac UMP Elected President Nicolas Sarkozy UMP

Presidential elections were held in France on 21 and 22 April 2007 to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France (and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra) for a five-year term. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 5 and 6 May 2007 between the two leading candidates, Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal. Sarkozy was elected with 53% of the vote.

Sarkozy and Royal both represented a generational change. Both main candidates were born after World War II,^[1] along with the first to have seen adulthood under the Fifth Republic, and the first not to have been in politics under Charles de Gaulle.