https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system Basically... 17% of people voted for the National Front as their

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system Basically... 17% of people voted for the National Front as their first vote, and when the first vote failed due to no party having a majority, and all parties but those two with the highest number of votes were excluded, there was a second vote. In the second vote between two parties, 18% of people voted for the National Front - only a 1% increase - despite 60% of people having voted for minority parties in the first round and thus having to switch their vote (or abstain). That is, the vast majority of people who had voted for minority parties decided to vote against the National Front in the second vote. (For exact numbers - the National Front got 4,804,713 votes in the first round, and 5,525,032 in the second - a jump of 720,319 votes - and Rally for the Republic got 5,665,855 votes in the first round, and 25,537,956 in the second - a jump of 19,872,101 votes.)