2021 French Green Party presidential primary

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2021 French Green Party presidential primary

← 2016 28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)
Turnout	85.41%
Candidate Yannick Jadot Sandrine Rousseau Party Europe Ecology – The Greens Europe Ecology – The Greens Percentage 51.03% 48.97%

The 2021 Ecology primary took place on 19 and 28 September 2021 to nominate the candidate of the Ecologist Pole electoral coalition for the 2022 French presidential election. The primary was open to any French citizen over the age of 16, who paid a small fee and agreed to the coalition's charter. 122,670 voters were registered, which was 7 times more than in the 2016 primary, with over 85% taking part in the two rounds of voting.

There were five candidates in the running:

• Yannick Jadot
• Sandrine Rousseau
• Delphine Batho
• Éric Piolle
• Jean-Marc Governatori

The first round was close, with 4 of the 5 candidates receiving over 20% of the vote. Jadot, the frontrunner, and Rousseau progressed to the second round, while the others were eliminated. On 28 September, Jadot narrowly won the second round, with 51.03% of the voteand became the nominee.^[1]