Emmanuel Macron Elected President Of France With 65% Of The Vote: Live Feed
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
May 7, 2017
Live Feed from France 24:
With French polls closed around the nation, the first official results and out and show a decisive victory for Emmanuel Macron, who according to initial polling sources has won roughly 65% of the vote, with Le Pen collecting roughly 35%, according to the estimates of four separate pollsters.
The early polls all show Macron with at least 65% of the vote:
Elabe: 65.9%
Ifop: 65.5%
Ipsos: 65.1%
Kantar: 65.0%
As BBG notes, the firms sampled real votes as they were being counted and weighted their results to reflect the composition of the French electorate. Their projections were all within 1 percentage point.
Readers wondering how all the votes can possibly be counted between most polls closing at 7pm and the results being announced at 8pm, the answer is that they wont be: the early result released at 8pm is based on the votes counted in 250 designated polling stations around the country that are considered to be have an accurate cross section of French voters. Hence the initial percentages given at 8pm can change slightly as the rest of the votes are counted. But as the first round demonstrated, it’s pretty accurate.
Macron, 39, will become the youngest president of France’s
Fifth Republic.
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