Final first round results. The second round is on May 6th.
Candidate percentage of vote: Nicolas Sarkozy(Union for a Popular Movement) 31.18; Ségolène Royal(Socialist Party) 25.87; François Bayrou(Union for French Democracy) 18.57; Jean-Marie Le Pen(National Front) 10.44; Olivier Besancenot(Revolutionary Communist League) 4.08; Philippe de Villiers(Movement For France) 2.23; Marie-George Buffet(Communist Party) 1.93; Dominique Voynet(Greens) 1.57; Arlette Laguiller(Workers' Struggle) 1.33; José Bové(Farmer-activist) 1.32; Frédéric Nihous(Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Traditions Party) 1.15; Gérard Schivardi(Workers' Party) 0.34.
Registered voters 44,472,785; abstentions 16.23 per cent; turnout 83.77 per cent; spoiled 1.20 per cent; valid turnout 82.58 per cent.
- (Reuters)