Le Pen's comeback : the 2002 French presidential election

Nonna Mayer (1)

1 CEVIPOF - Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS)

How could the French far right draw nearly 20% of the valid votes in the first round of the 2002 presidential election? Who are these voters and have they changed? Can this happen again? To answer these questions we rely on a three wave panel survey of 10,000 interviews conducted before the first round of the 2002 presidential election. [Résumé éditeur]

Keywords: Jean-Marie Le Pen; French national front; 2002 French presidential election

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science

Nonna Mayer. Le Pen's comeback : the 2002 French presidential election. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2003, 27 (2), pp.455 - 459. ⟨hal-03400013⟩