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President-candidate Emmanuel Macron will face a second round run-off against Marine Le Pen on April 24, after obtaining 27.6% and 23.41% respectively of the first round vote (with 97% of ballots counted) in this year’s presidential elections.

President Macron came out in front in 52 departments – performing most successfully in western France – far-right candidate Ms Le Pen won 42 and far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon won 12, most notably in overseas territories and Ile-de-France.

President Macron and Ms Le Pen were the two candidates who were predicted to win the first round according to pre-vote polls - and a tight second round is now forecast.

You can see how your area of France voted yesterday via this .

You need to choose your department and the results will be shown in a table. You can then click on the first letter of your commune and will be presented with a list to choose from.

For example, in the department of Charente you can see that 53,125 people voted for President Macron (La République en Marche), giving him 27.57% of the vote, while 50,430 people opted for Ms Le Pen (Rassemblement national), who gained 26.18% of the vote.

If you then choose Balzac commune, you can see that 34.24% of local voters came out in support of Mr Macron, while 22.34% voted for Ms Le Pen, 17.12% for Mr Mélenchon (La France Insoumise) and so on.

How did people vote in general?

In yesterday’s vote, far-right candidates made gains on their 2017, 2012 and 2007 results: 4,453 communes accorded more than 50% of their vote to a far-right candidate this time round, while only 1,135 did in 2017.

On a national level, the far-right candidates Ms Le Pen, Éric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan were most successful in northeastern and southeastern France, while they fared worst in Brittany, Ile-de-France and the centre of the country.

The extreme right and centre now appear to have squeezed out the right, whose share of the vote fell from 20% in 2017 to 4.79% yesterday.

In Ile-de-France, President Macron dominated, with 35.33% of the vote, followed by Mr Mélenchon with 30.09% and then Mr Zemmour with 8.16%. In the capital, Ms Le Pen only obtained 5.54% of the vote.

Mr Mélenchon proved popular in urban areas. He came in first in Lille (with 40.53% of the vote), Toulouse (with 36.95%), Montpellier (with 40.73%), Nantes (with 33.11%) Rennes (with 36.31%) and Marseille (with 31.12%). In all of these cities Mr Macron achieved the second highest number of votes.

Mr Macron, meanwhile, received the most support in cities including Lyon (with 31.84% of the vote), Bordeaux (with 33.51%) and Nice (with 25.13%).

In Toulon, Ms Le Pen came out on top, but only by a whisker, with Mr Macron’s 24.21% of the vote creeping up towards her 25.28%.

In general, departments fell to the same candidate as in 2017, but Marine Le Pen did make gains on Mr Macron and Mr Mélenchon in departments including Ain, Haute-Loire, Dordogne and Creuse, overtaking them to come in first.

Mr Macron, however, took departments such as Doubs, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Loir-et-Cher, Loire and Drôme, which had been won by Ms Le Pen in 2017.

How did the other candidates do nationally?

Far-left candidate Mr Mélenchon was not far behind Ms Le Pen by the end of last night, with 21.95% of the vote.

After the top three candidates, there was a large gap before the fourth, Mr Zemmour (Reconquête !), who received 7.05%, and fifth, Valérie Pécresse (Les Républicains) who obtained 4.79% of the vote.

The remaining results were as follows:

• Yannick Jadot (Europe Écologie les Verts) - 4.58%
• Jean Lassalle (Résistons !) - 3.16%
• Fabien Roussel (Parti Communiste) - 2.31%
• Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Debout la France) - 2.07%
• Anne Hidalgo (Parti Socialiste) - 1.74%
• Philippe Poutou (Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste) - 0.77%
• Nathalie Arthuad (Lutte Ouvrière) - 0.57%

The abstention rate was 25.14%.

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