What does Voting look like in France?

To preface this, I am in fact a French citizen, although my interactions with French politics are not as robust as some French-based writers. However, I'm still more than familiar and I write what I want on my own blog.

France is a complicated nesting doll of different electoral systems and political dynamics that constantly shift around and create the odd politics we see on a national level. I'll run through each tier here with a brief explainer attached.

The Presidential

Unquestionably the most important election in the "Presidential Monarchy" that is France, you're most likely to be familiar with the electoral system used here. French presidential elections are run through a two-round system. The first round is open to any who can reach the (relatively meagre) threshold for nomination. Voters choose one candidate each to vote for and the two best performing candidates go into a runoff 14 days later to elect the next president. Officially, if either candidate drops out of the race, the third place finisher advances to the runoff in their place. In case of a tie, the general method is that it is resolved in favour of the oldest candidate (although this is a near mathematical impossibility on an election of this scale.

The two-round system is generally understood to favour limited multi-party sytems, as it allows for more than 2 candidates to be of significance, althugh it still maintains a need for tactical voting resoluting in elections generally only having between 3 and 5 viable candidates in the field.

European Elections

MEPs in France are elected through a list system on a national constituency.