A week ago the indications were clearly present that France was moving towards a serious four-way contest in the Presidential first round. That has been richly confirmed in the seven days since, with the gap between the leading four candidates narrowing further – it stands at between three and seven points across this week’s 16 […]
Tag: Odoxa
France moves towards a four-horse race
We now have two polls entirely completed after the second Presidential TV debate and they confirm that Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s highly-regarded performance on Tuesday evening is translating into improved voting intentions, just as happened after the first debate. In Odoxa’s survey for Le Point out this Friday afternoon, the leftist candidate achieves his best result of […]
Horror week for Hamon, momentum for Mélenchon
Parti Socialiste Presidential candidate Benoit Hamon ended a dreadful week confronted by an Odoxa poll for Le Point, released on Friday evening, giving him a record low of just 8 per cent in first round voting intentions. On Wednesday came the blow of former PM Manuel Valls, the man Hamon defeated in the PS primary, […]
Le Pen still edges Macron for first round in three of four polls
It has been a bumper day for polling in the French Presidential campaign, with the fortnightly survey from Harris Interactive and a monthly one from Ipsos Sopra Steria-Cevipof joining the two daily rolling polls. Most media excitement was reserved for the news from Harris that Emmanuel Macron (En Marche!) had overtaken Marine Le Pen (FN) […]
France: Fillon, on the brink, hits polling low
The first poll to be entirely researched since Francois Fillon confirmed he will face criminal charges delivers the predictable blow to the crisis-hit conservative candidate – he sinks to 17 per cent of first round voting intentions with Kantar Sofres Onepoint this evening, his lowest rating in any poll of the campaign so far. It […]
Macron chalks up first poll lead as Fillon flounders
Independent candidate Emmanuel Macron passed an important polling milestone today – for the first time during an already protracted French Presidential campaign he was shown leading on first round voting intentions. The Odoxa survey reports the En Marche! founder advancing two percentage points to hit 27 per cent, while rival Marine Le Pen […]