Macron likely to defeat Le Pen in French Presidential election runoff
- Written by Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
In the first round of the French Presidential election held yesterday, centrist Emmanuel Macron won 23.8% of the vote, followed by the far right Marine Le Pen on 21.5%, conservative Francois Fillon on 19.9% and the hard left Jean-Luc Melenchon on 19.6%. The top two vote winners, Macron and Le Pen, qualified for the 7 May runoff. These results...






