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Emmanuel Macron goes into the election with a reasonable lead in polls over Marine Le Pen, after a fractious campaign

While most countries rely on exit polls to declare elections winners, at the risk of jumping the gun, pollsters in France base their estimates on actual ballots counted – a system made possible by the staggered closure of polling stations across the country.

Anissa Rami, writer for Bondy Blog, reports from suburbs north of Paris ahead of France’s second-round presidential vote

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen urged voters to choose "between Macron and France" as she held her final campaign rally in the northern town of Arras on Thursday, hoping to sway undecided voters ahead of Sunday’s final presidential vote.

The two presidential candidates faced off in a three-hour debate Wednesday in which they tried to convince undecided voters. Did it work? Leftist Mélenchon voters on what to do in the second round. And the first woman elected to office in France in 1925.

Community disappointed by president for neglecting poorer suburbs and passing divisive anti-terror laws

Just days ahead of the second and final round of the presidential election on Sunday, supporters of Emmanuel Macron are multiplying their efforts to encourage voters to cast their ballots for the incumbent president. But even in a Parisian neighbourhood that voted 42.35 percent in favour of Macron in the…

The race for the presidential post in France began with 12 candidates. It will conclude on April 24 with the same choice that confronted voters five years earlier: the centrist Emmanuel Macron or the far-right Marine Le Pen.

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Wednesday called on French people to vote for incumbent Emmanuel Macron in this Sunday’s presidential election run-off.