High turnout of 59% at 5pm in the French legislative election

With three hours of voting remaining turnout at 5pm on Sunday in the first round of the French legislative elections stood at 59.39%.

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00:00There has been an unusually high turnout at polling stations as French voters cast their

00:06ballots in the first round of parliamentary elections.

00:10At 5pm it stood at 59.39%, nearly 20 points higher than the 2022 legislative elections.

00:19This suggests turnout could reach nearly 70% by 8pm when voting ends.

00:26Voters are already coming in from France's overseas territories.

00:30In Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana, the incumbent new Popular Front deputies have

00:35secured their seats, as has the incumbent Nicolas Mertzdorff from the Generations NC

00:41in New Caledonia.

00:44In France, 577 representatives will form a new government, which could, for the first

00:50time since the Nazi era, be composed of far-right parties.

00:55President Macron called the snap election following the far-right national rally's

00:59success in the European Parliament elections in June.