Election 2017: How France voted

Emmanuel Macron (En Marche!) won 66.06% of the votes in the Presidential election, with Marine Le Pen (Front National) taking 33.94%.

Mr Macron obtained a majority of votes in 26,044 communes, Marine Le Pen in 9,194, while the candidates were tied in 311 communes.

The new president-elect took all but four communes in Brittany plus the whole of Mayenne and Vendée. Further south, he boosted his support in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and claimed more than 70% of the vote in regions west of the Massif Central such as Corrèze (François Hollande stronghold) and Puy-de-Dôme.

Mr Macron did very well in urban areas, coming second in just six of the 127 communes with more than 125,000 registered voters.

The Paris region backed him heavily as he won 78.72% of the votes in its seven departments and in the capital itself he took nine out of 10 votes. Four of the five "most Macron" departments in the country are located in Ile-de-France (Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis).

In the Essonne commune of Yerres – a stronghold of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan whom Ms Le Pen wanted to make prime minister had she won – Mr Macron won 72.18% of votes.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo welcomed his election performance on Twitter, saying: "90% of votes in Paris for Macron and only 10% for the extreme right. Proud of Parisians".

More than 20million people voted Macron but more than 26m did not. There were 12m abstentions, 10.5m voted Le Pen, three million left their ballot paper blank and one million spoiled theirs.

While Ms Le Pen was soundly beaten, it was not a disaster for the Front National leader, who set a new record for her party. She doubled the figure achieved by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, when he faced Jacques Chirac in the second round of 2002 and took 5.5m votes or 17.79% of the vote.

The number of communes where the Front National came out on top illustrates this progress. Whereas in 2002 Mr Le Pen won only 34, his daughter yesterday took more than 9,000. "The results of the FN are steadily increasing," said historian Valérie Igounet, who runs the blog Behind the Front.

In terms of electoral geography, Ms Le Pen remains popular in her usual strongholds: the northeast of France, the Mediterranean coast and the Gironde estuary. In Aisne, Hauts-de-France she won in 619 out of 804 towns, giving her the best departmental score with 52.91% of the votes. In communes around the Mediterranean, the Front National frequently exceeded 50% of the vote.

"To speak as a salesperson, we are eating up market shares at every election," said Front National MEP Bruno Gollnisch. "The general trend is extremely favourable for us."

Voting maps revealed that the number of blank ballots was highest (12.11% against a national average of 8.5%) in those communes where Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France Insoumise) came top in the first round of voting.

You can see how your commune voted by clicking here and typing in your postcode.