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Behind the Polling–Booth Curtain and beyond Simple Speculations:Toward a Causal Model of Far–Right Voting Behaviour Some Evidence fromFrench Presidential Elections of 2002

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2005

Philippe Bonnetain
Philippe Bonnetain
Affiliation:
Université de Paris I — Panthéon Sorbonne.
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The electoral surge of the National Front (NF) in the 2002 French presidential election was unprecedented. It marked the first time that a far–right candidate reached the second round of voting in a presidential election: Jean–Marie Le Pen, leader of the NF party, passed the first round on April 21, 2002, beating 16 other candidates with 16.86 per cent of the vote against 19.88 per cent for the incumbent President Jacques Chirac (Rassemblement pour la République RPR) and 16.18 per cent for the incumbent Prime Minister Lionel Jospin (Parti Socialiste PS).

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 419 - 429
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© The Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique

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