2002 French presidential election
Presidential elections were held in France on 21 April 2002, with a runoff election between the top two candidates, incumbent Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front, on 5 May. This presidential contest attracted a greater than usual amount of international attention because of far-right candidate Le Pen's unexpected appearance in the runoff election.
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- Rally for the Republic
- AfterElection
- Jacques Chirac
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- enRally for the Republic
- BeforeElection
- Jacques Chirac
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- enRally for the Republic
- Cand
- Alain Madelin
- Arlette Laguiller
- Bruno Mégret
- Christiane Taubira
- Christine Boutin
- Corinne Lepage
- Daniel Gluckstein
- François Bayrou
- Jacques Chirac
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
- Jean-Pierre Chevènement
- Jean Saint-Josse
- Lionel Jospin
- Noël Mamère
- Olivier Besancenot
- Robert Hue
- Comment
- enPresidential elections were held in France on 21 April 2002, with a runoff election between the top two candidates, incumbent Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front, on 5 May. This presidential contest attracted a greater than usual amount of international attention because of far-right candidate Le Pen's unexpected appearance in the runoff election.
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- 21 April 2002
- 5 May 2002
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- enPresidential elections were held in France on 21 April 2002, with a runoff election between the top two candidates, incumbent Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front, on 5 May. This presidential contest attracted a greater than usual amount of international attention because of far-right candidate Le Pen's unexpected appearance in the runoff election. Chirac ran for a second term, reduced to five years instead of seven previously by a 2000 referendum, emphasising a strong economy (mostly unaffected by downturns in Germany and the United States). It was widely expected that Chirac and Lionel Jospin, the outgoing cohabitation Prime Minister and nominee of the Socialist Party, would be the most popular candidates in the first round, thus going on to face each other in the runoff, with opinion polls showing a hypothetical Chirac versus Jospin second round too close to call. However, Jospin unexpectedly finished in third place behind Le Pen. Journalists and politicians claimed polls had failed to predict Le Pen's second-place finish in the general election, though his strong stance could be seen in the week prior to the election. This led to serious discussions about polling techniques and the climate of French politics. Although Le Pen's political party, the National Front, described itself as mainstream conservative, non-partisan observers largely agreed in defining it as a far-right and nationalist party. As a protest, almost all French political parties called for their supporters to vote against Le Pen, most notably the Socialists, who were traditionally billed as the archrivals to Chirac's party. Chirac thus went on to win in the largest landslide in a presidential election in French history (greater even than that of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1848, the first by direct ballot), winning over 82% of the vote. The National Front would not appear again in the second round of the presidential election until 2017. After Chirac's victory, no French President would win a second term until Emmanuel Macron in 2022.
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- 1848 French presidential election
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- 2000 French constitutional referendum
- 2017 French presidential election
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- Aisne
- Alain Madelin
- Allier
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- Alpes-Maritimes
- Alsace
- Antisemitism
- Aquitaine
- Ardèche
- Ardennes (department)
- Ariège (department)
- Arlette Laguiller
- Aube
- Aude
- Auvergne
- Aveyron
- Bas-Rhin
- Bouches-du-Rhône
- Bourgogne
- Brittany (administrative region)
- Bruno Mégret
- Burgundy
- Calvados (department)
- Cantal
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- Category:2002 elections in Europe
- Category:2002 French presidential election
- Category:Presidential elections in France
- Centre (France)
- Centre (region, France)
- Champagne-Ardenne
- Charente
- Charente-Maritime
- Cher (department)
- Christiane Taubira
- Christine Boutin
- Citizen and Republican Movement
- Clothespin
- Cohabitation (government)
- Comme un coup de tonnerre
- Constitutional Council of France
- Corinne Lepage
- Corrèze
- Corruption scandals in the Paris region
- Corse-du-Sud
- Corsica
- Côte-d'Or
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Creuse
- Daniel Gluckstein
- David Duke
- Departments of France
- Deux-Sèvres
- Dordogne
- Doubs
- Drôme
- Emmanuel Macron
- Essonne
- Eure
- Eure-et-Loir
- Far-right politics
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- Finistère
- France
- France2
- Franche-Comté
- François Bayrou
- French Communist Party
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Gard
- Gers
- Gironde
- Guadeloupe
- Haute-Corse
- Haute-Garonne
- Haute-Loire
- Haute-Marne
- Hautes-Alpes
- Haute-Saône
- Haute-Savoie
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Haute-Vienne
- Haut-Rhin
- Hauts-de-Seine
- Hérault
- History of the far-right in France
- Île de France
- Île-de-France
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Indre
- Indre-et-Loire
- Isère
- Jacques Chirac
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
- Jeanne d'Arc
- Jean-Pierre Chevènement
- Jean Saint-Josse
- Jura (department)
- Labor Day
- Landes (department)
- Landslide victory
- Languedoc-Roussillon
- Legal immunity
- Liberal Democracy (France)
- Liberation of Paris
- Limousin
- Lionel Jospin
- Loire (department)
- Loire-Atlantique
- Loiret
- Loir-et-Cher
- Lorraine
- Lot (department)
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Lower Normandy
- Lozère
- Lutte Ouvrière
- Maine-et-Loire
- Manche
- Marne (department)
- Martinique
- Mayenne
- Mayotte
- Meurthe-et-Moselle
- Meuse (department)
- Midi-Pyrénées
- Minister of the Interior (France)
- Morbihan
- Moselle (department)
- Napoleon III
- Nationalism
- National Rally
- National Republican Movement
- New Caledonia
- Nièvre
- Noël Mamère
- Nord (French department)
- Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- Oise
- Olivier Besancenot
- Opinion polling for the 2002 French presidential election
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- Paris
- Pas-de-Calais
- Pays de la Loire
- Percentage point
- Picardy
- Place de la Bastille
- Poitou-Charentes
- Presidential elections in France
- President of France
- Prime Minister of France
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Radical Party of the Left
- Rally for the Republic
- Regions of France
- Réunion
- Revolutionary Communist League (France)
- Rhône (department)
- Rhône-Alpes
- Robert Hue
- Rurality Movement
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saône-et-Loire
- Sarthe
- Savoie
- Seine-et-Marne
- Seine-Maritime
- Seine-Saint-Denis
- Socialist Party (France)
- Somme (department)
- Tarn (department)
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Territoire de Belfort
- TF1
- The Greens (France)
- Two-round system
- Union for French Democracy
- Upper Normandy
- Val-d'Oise
- Val-de-Marne
- Var (department)
- Vaucluse
- Vendée
- VIA, the Way of the People
- Vienne
- Vosges (department)
- Wallis and Futuna
- West European Politics
- Workers' Party (France)
- Yonne
- Yvelines
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- enResults of the second round by department and region
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- Nominee
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- Rally for the Republic
- Revolutionary Communist League (France)
- Rurality Movement
- Socialist Party (France)
- The Greens (France)
- Union for French Democracy
- VIA, the Way of the People
- Workers' Party (France)
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- 82.21
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- 2002 Fransa cumhurbaşkanlığı seçimi
- 2002 French presidential election
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- 2002 m. Prancūzijos prezidento rinkimai
- 2002年フランス大統領選挙
- 2002年法国总统选举
- 2002년 프랑스 대통령 선거
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- Elezzioni prisidinziali 'n Francia dû 2002
- Franse presidentsverkiezingen 2002
- Pemilihan umum Presiden Prancis 2002
- Præsidentvalget i Frankrig 2002
- Präsidentschaftswahl in Frankreich 2002
- Presidentvalet i Frankrike 2002
- Presidentvalget i Frankrike 2002
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- Wybory prezydenckie we Francji w 2002 roku
- Президентские выборы во Франции (2002)
- Президентські вибори у Франції 2002
- הבחירות לנשיאות צרפת 2002
- الانتخابات الرئاسية الفرنسية (2002)
- انتخابات ریاستجمهوری فرانسه (۲۰۰۲)
- การเลือกตั้งประธานาธิบดีฝรั่งเศส ค.ศ. 2002
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- enList of candidates First round result Second round result
- Start date
- 21 April 2002
- 5 May 2002
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- Category:2002 French presidential election
- Category:Presidential elections in France
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