Result
| Candidates | Parties | 1st round | 2nd round | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| François Mitterrand | Socialist Party (Parti socialiste) | PS | 11,044,373 | 43.25% | 12,971,604 | 49.19% | |
| Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | Independent Republicans (Républicains indépendants) | RI | 8,326,774 | 32.60% | 13,396,203 | 50.81% | |
| Jacques Chaban-Delmas | Union of Democrats for the Republic (Union des démocrates pour la République) | UDR | 3,857,728 | 15.11% | |||
| Jean Royer | Independent conservative (Sans étiquette, droite conservatrice) | 810,540 | 3.17% | ||||
| Arlette Laguiller | Workers' Struggle (Lutte Ouvrière) | LO | 595,247 | 2.33% | |||
| René Dumont | Environmentalist (Sans étiquette, écologiste) | 337,800 | 1.32% | ||||
| Jean-Marie Le Pen | National Front (Front national) | FN | 190,921 | 0.75% | |||
| Émile Muller | Democratic Socialist Movement of France (Mouvement démocrate socialiste de France) | MDSF | 176,279 | 0.69% | |||
| Alain Krivine | Revolutionary Communist Front (Front communiste révolutionnaire) | FCR | 93,990 | 0.37% | |||
| Bertrand Renouvin | New Royalist Action (Nouvelle Action royaliste) | NAR | 43,722 | 0.17% | |||
| Jean-Claude Sebag | European Federalist Movement (Mouvement fédéraliste européen) | MFE | 42,007 | 0.16% | |||
| Guy Héraud | European federalist (Fédéraliste européen) | 19,255 | 0.08% | ||||
| Total | 25,538,636 | 100% | 26,367,807 | 100% | |||
| Valid votes | 25,538,636 | 99.08% | 26,367,807 | 98.66% | |||
| Spoilt and null votes | 237,107 | 0.92% | 356,788 | 1.34% | |||
| Turnout | 25,775,743 | 84.23% | 26,724,595 | 87.33% | |||
| Abstentions | 4,827,210 | 15.77% | 3,876,180 | 12.67% | |||
| Registered voters | 30,602,953 | 30,600,775 | |||||
| Table of results ordered by number of votes received in first round. Official results by Constitutional Council of France.
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