Chirac Wins 82.2 Percent of Votes in Presidential Run-off: Official

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Chirac Wins 82.2 Percent of Votes in Presidential Run-off: Official

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France's re-elected President Jacques Chirac has won 82.21 percent of the ballots in Sunday's run-off, defeating far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen, who got 17.79 percent of the votes, the Interior Ministry announced May 6 afternoon in Paris.

Of 41,191,009 registered voters, 32,831,497 voted on Sunday. Turnout was 79.71 percent.

Of all the votes cast, Chirac won 25,540,873, which accounted to 82.21 percent of the votes cast and 62.01 of the total number of registered voters.

Le Pen garnered 5,525,906 votes, taking up 17.97 percent of thevotes cast and 13.42 percent of the number of registered voters.

There were 1,764,718 invalid votes.

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