SURGE in turnout in France so far.
Turnout at 5pm is 59% of registered voters (orange line). That's already higher than the *overall* turnout in the 2012, 2017, and 2022 elections.
(Note: polls projected this; not necessarily indicative of a surprise in overall vote share.)
So, this is good for democracy, of course.
Also, concretely, what this means is that there'll be a TON of districts that'll end up with 3-way runoffs rather than 2-ways (because that's index to runoffs). That makes it trickier to beat far-right... unless candidates drop out.
