French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third

Thank you France

The centrists worked together with the left to beat the far right. Absolute mad-lads.

Well done france

UK: done

France: done

US: please don't let us down.

When was the last time all 3 had general elections at the same time?

Thank you, UK.

Thank you, France.

Hat trick, USA?

Putin getting nervous.

thats a pleasant surprise and all but the nazis will be back.

electoralism wont fix this and we better be prepared for the next time they have any opportunity. another pink wave won't resolve our problems now for the same reasons it didnt before.

nazis need to be dealt with asap, or else, and the best way is for leftists to actually organize.

The French show us the correct path.

Wasn't the right poised to take it all in a landslide only just... checks notes - yesterday?

are you guys finally dusting off the guillotines?

A positive outcome few expected.

Eat shit fascists

I know there's still a long way to go but maybe the future won't be as completely horrofying as I thought. Fuck the facists and fuck the nazis, well done France!

Hell yeah

I feel like "the right gets a big showing early on but ends up losing" is a regular feature of modern French elections. It seems like it's happened multiple times in my lifetime.

Alright! Now if France and Britain’s new left-of-center leadership can just… PLEASE not fuck it up… there may actually hope for the rest of the planet.

Lavrov already calls this a treachery, so I guess it's absolutely a good thing.

Unfortunately, it doesn't mean Macron will name a leftist prime minister. He already asked his center-right prime minister to remain in office for a while. But the message from the population is clear.

Start listening to the working class and the far right won't even be a fart in the night

If the Canadian left could do this the Conservatives would never win an election ever again

Lol, from the AP.

Some big-name stores in Paris are protecting their windows in case of unrest as results come out, but that’s a pretty common precaution.

They party like it's 1799, guys.

Today, in my heart I am French.

It's funny because that required that all parties left of the far right work together and remove candidates so the vote wouldn't get split in order for the results to be closer to what the population actually wanted, shows just how broken democracy is...

Dodged a bullet

France’s national assembly has 577 seats, with 289 seats needed for an absolute majority.

Here is the first projected seat distribution, from Ipsos. It shows the left in the lead, in a major shift compared to opinion polls during the campaign.

Left-green New Popular Front: 172-192 seats

**Emmanuel Macron’s allies: **150-170 seats

**Far right National Rally and allies: **132-152 seats

Beat turn out projections and upended polling results.

Vive La France!

What happens when you frighten French with Marine.

How is it that a French political party can get 15% fewer votes than a rival party, and end up with 8 more seats in Parliament than that rival party?

Now the left needs to get serious about immigration issues, RN has been gaining and only gaining, we are just delaying the win of far right, so many issues with left, they need to do right things.

I feel like the real lesson is being missed here:

Do not mess with Mbappé.

Oh thank goodness. Worst fear allayed, now on to the next one.

And Macron started he won't accept a coalition that includes France Unbowed. Something something antisemitism.

I'm not familiar with France's parties. Are these real Greens, or Greenpeace or crypto-Russian greens?

Good job France!

Joe Biden, take note of how rigged the polks and press are and keep going.

Fuck yeah frogs. Well done.

Hardly a shock.

B-B-But POLLS!!!!

What a joke....

This is going to be the last warning shot I'm sure.

The far right rise because they are the only ones talking about immigration.

The left won right now. Two things can happen, either the left listen to millions of people screaming for reduced immigration and we never hear from the far right again. Or the left continue to ignore people and think this is the end of it. It won't be the end.