REVEALED: These are the 50 villages were Marine Le Pen didn’t get a single vote
MARINE Le Pen may have come in second place during the first round of the French elections - but she failed to secure a single vote in 50 villages across the country.
Marine Le Pen did not receive a single vote in any of the 50 communes
The former Front National leader, who stepped down from her party in a shocking twist last night, did not manage to impress a single inhabitant of 50 communes across mainland France.
The villages, all under 100 inhabitants strong, did not see a single box ticked on the ballot paper for Ms Le Pen.
And it seems the majority of the 50 are packed in the south, near Toulouse and Montpellier.
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will go head to head on May 7
These 50 villages failed to cast even on vote for Le Pen
While the rest are spread across the east and north, creating a crescent of Le Pen no-go zones.
The first round of voting saw centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron pull in 24.01 per cent of support, with Ms Le Pen trailing behind at 21.30 per cent.
Francois Fillon was knocked out on 20.01 per cent, closely followed by Jean-Luc Melenchon on 19.58 per cent.
Marine Le Pen came second with 21.30 per cent of support in the French election
Turnout was recorded at 77.77 per cent with 22.23 per cent of France’s 47 million registered voters abstaining.
And 2.55 per cent of ballots were ‘blank’, or spoiled.
Both Macron and Le Pen will now go on to the second round of voting on May 7, as the candidates battle it out to replace the current deeply unpopular Socialist leader Francois Hollande.
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Marine Le Pen came second in the first round
The two finalists offer France two very different visions for the future - with Mr Macron hoping to further beef up the euro zone.
While Ms Le Pen intends to leave the euro and hold an in-out referendum on EU membership within six months of taking power.
Mr Macron has been tipped to win the run-off - with two surveys conducted on Sunday putting him on 64 and 62 per cent respectively.