FRENCH REPUBLIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF APRIL-MAY 1981 ================================================================== Parties ------------------------------------------------------------------ * PCF - Parti Communiste Francaise (French Communist Party) * PS - Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party) * RPR - Rassemblement Pour la Republique (Rally for the Republic) * UDF - Union pour la Democratie Francaise (Union for French Democracy) First Round: 24 April 1981 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Voters: 36,398,859 Votes cast: 29,516,082 81.1 Invalid votes: 477,965 01.6 Valid votes: 29,038,117 98.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------ Huguette Bouchardeau 321,353 01.1 Jacques Chirac RPR 5,225,848 18.0 Michel Crépeau 642,847 02.2 Michel Debré 481,821 01.7 Marie-France Garaud 386,623 01.3 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing * UDF 8,222,432 28.3 Arlette Laguiller 668,057 02.3 Brice Lalonde 1,126,254 03.9 Georges Marchais PCF 4,456,922 15.3 François Mitterrand PS 7,505,960 25.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 29,038,117 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Second Round: 10 May 1981 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Voters: 36,398,762 Votes cast: 31,249,552 85.9 Invalid votes: 898,984 02.9 Valid votes: 30,350,568 97.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------ François MITTERRAND PS 15,708,262 51.8 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing * UDF 14,642,306 48.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 30,350,568 ------------------------------------------------------------------