Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap elections

A good recent interview with CNN

The only thing that exit polls agree on is that there no clear majority for anyone. Seems RN could finished 1st or 3rd according to the various exit polls.

My neighbours will be disappointed - 54.91% wanted the far right, but the départment as a whole chose the soft right, by a margin of 1.7%

And the country as a whole surprised me by deciding to follow the British example and give two fingers to the Front National.

How deep into that bucket of popcorn are you, Brickster?

They're not exit polls - they're the real results. If you don't like what you're seeing, tant pis. The results are what they are - France is not ready to go hard right; Macron showed the FN up for what they are - a bunch of discontents without sufficient support to govern the country.

We're back to business as usual now, probably without any more excitement for the next three years.

Thought they were exit polls. What do you mean? (they are supposed to be very accurate but we seem to be seeing a range of outcomes)

A good night for the hard left - if they dont improve conditions in france the tactical withdrawals of candidates in round 2 may not work next time

Most of the polling stations close at 6pm. These are based in communes with small and very small populations so the number of votes cast would be in the hundreds, not thousands. You'll typically have at least half a dozen members of the conseil municipal (local council) counting the votes. In the second round, in my commune, they can get that done in about 15 minutes, at which point they phone the result in to the (equivalent of a) returning officer.

About 80% of the votes will have been counted and reported by 7pm French time, but they're not announced until the last polling stations close at 8. The remainder will come in quickly between 8-9pm, and the last few (big constituencies or disputed counts) by 10.

You can see the breakdown here :

https://www.lefigaro.fr/elections/legislatives/carte-les-resultats-des-elections-legislatives-2024-dans-votre-ville-et-par-circonscription-20240707

(Map is "interactive" so I can't link it as an image)

They are exit polls.

For those looking for scenes of rioting …

Not sure how many Molotov cocktails you're going to see, as the theme of the evening seems to be "we bate the crap out of the FN. Vive la France!"

Okay, maybe you're looking at "exit polls" - I'm looking at actual seats filled.

Sure, there's still a bit of uncertainty as to how the numerous Paris constituencies will vote (the last polling stations to close) but just about all the other results are in.

Pick any town or village and I'll tell you what the actual results are for the village and the constituency as a whole.

They are indeed only exit polls, but French exit polls have a history of reliability. It would be pretty shocking if the actual outcome were not within the range given for the three blocks.

After all that le pen 3rd. Melenchon was just 1.2% behind her in the first round of the presidential election 2 years ago as well.

Will the headlines talk about a leftist surge now? Lol

Sums up what was said from the start. How the financial markets take it in the next couple of weeks should give some indication.