• Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have won the first voting round in the French presidential election.
• With 95.5 percent of the votes counted, Macron, the incumbent, is at 28 percent support and Le Pen, the leader of the far right, at 23 percent. Far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon places third with 22 percent.
• The April 24 runoff will be a rematch of the 2017 election, when Macron defeated Le Pen with 66 to her 34 percent. Polls predict a narrower margin this year.

Results

Candidate		Party	Support
■	Emmanuel Macron	The Republic on the Move	27.8
■	Marine Le Pen	National Rally	23
■	Jean-Luc Mélenchon	France Unbowed	22
■	Éric Zemmour	Reconquest	7.1
■	Valérie Pécresse	Republicans	4.8
■	Yannick Jadot	Europe Ecology – The Greens	4.6
■	Fabien Roussel	Communist Party	2.3
■	Anne Hidalgo	Socialist Party	1.8