French people living outside France (French: Français établis hors de France) are French citizens living outside the current territory of the French Republic.
At the end of 2019, the French presence abroad was estimated at more than 2.5 million people. They had the right to vote in the 2021 French consular elections.
Since 2012, French people living outside France have been represented in the National Assembly by eleven members of parliament elected in the eleven constituencies for French residents overseas."Redécoupage électoral – 11 députés pour les Français de l'étranger" , Le Petit Journal, 22 October 2009 Elections 2022 Results by department Department EmmanuelMacron MarineLe Pen Votes % Votes % French residents overseas 458,874 86.14% 73,830 13.86% Total 18,768,639 58.55% 13,288,686 41.45% Source: Minister of the Interior Results by department Department EmmanuelMacron MarineLe Pen Jean-LucMélenchon ÉricZemmour ValériePécresse YannickJadot JeanLassalle FabienRoussel NicolasDupont-Aignan AnneHidalgo PhilippePoutou NathalieArthaud Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %Votes % French residents overseas 224,957 45.09% 26,380 5.29% 109,394 21.92% 43,252 8.67% 20,956 4.20% 40,774 8.17% 5,964 1.20% 3,266 0.65% 7,074 1.22% 12,489 2.50% 3,145 0.63% 1,300 0.26% Total Source: Ministry of Interior 2017 Results by department Department EmmanuelMacron MarineLe Pen Votes % Votes % French residents overseas 496,344 89.31 59,415 10.69 Total 20,743,128 66.10 10,638,475 33.90 Source: Ministry of the Interior Department EmmanuelMacron MarineLe Pen FrançoisFillon Jean-LucMélenchon BenoîtHamon NicolasDupont-Aignan JeanLassalle PhilippePoutou FrançoisAsselineau NathalieArthaud JacquesCheminade Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % French residents overseas 223,879 40.40 35,926 6.48 145,829 26.32 87,692 15.83 38,092 6.87 8,837 1.59 2,530 0.46 3,414 0.62 5,578 1.01 1,312 0.24 1,030 0.19 Total 8,656,346 24.01 7,678,491 21.30 7,212,995 20.01 7,059,951 19.58 2,291,288 6.36 1,695,000 4.70 435,301 1.21 394,505 1.09 332,547 0.92 232,384 0.64 65,586 0.18 Source: Ministry of the Interior 2012 (Second round) Results by department Department François Hollande Nicolas Sarkozy Votes % Votes %French overseas voters206,05346.94% 232,964 53.06%Total 18,000,668 51.64%16,860,68548.36% Source: European Election Database Maps
See also British Overseas citizen Swiss abroad Diaspora politics
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