Marine Le Pen, an MP in France’s National Assembly and a member of the right-wing populist Rassemblement national party, continues to enjoy a massive lead in the polls against her opponents in the first round of the 2027 French presidential election.
The latest survey, produced by the French polling firm OpinionWay, shows Le Pen with almost double the support of the runner-up candidate, MP Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the far-left La France Insoumise party. Le Pen is at 31 per cent, while Mélenchon is at 16 per cent.
Mayor Édouard Philippe of Le Havre, a member of the centre-right Horizons party, follows them with 12 per cent of national support. MEP Raphaël Glucksmann of the centre-left Place Publique party is in fourth place with 10 per cent. Meanwhile, the candidate for incumbent President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party is only in a shared seventh (!) place with 3 per cent support.
This is not the only highly favourable poll for Le Pen.
She leads POLITICO’s polling aggregate for the first round of the French presidential election by 17 points if Gabriel Attal is assumed to be the centrist forces’ candidate; and by 16 points if Édouard Philippe is the centrist candidate.
Le Pen ran against President Macron in the last two presidential elections. In 2022, Macron won the first round by 4.6 points, 27.8 per cent against 23.2 per cent. In the second round, Macron won by a massive margin, taking 58.55 per cent of the popular vote against Le Pen’s 41.45 per cent—a 17.1-point victory for President Macron.
The next two-round French presidential election will be taking place in April–May 2027.