Full breakdown of the round two Presidential votes by départements across France • Interactive map of the results • Get the data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian France’s election results for 2012 are in – and amazingly quickly, compared to London’s much-smaller mayoral vote last week. So, how did France vote in round two of the presidential election? The results show, writes Angelique Chrisafis François Hollande has won the presidency of France, turning the tide on a rightward and xenophobic lurch in European politics and vowing to transform Europe’s handling of the economic crisis by fighting back against German-led austerity measures. We collected the results from the French Ministry of the Interior here, but there was also some brilliant work going on from groups like Regards Citoyens, which was running an open data hack on the election . They also produced this graphic, which showed the votes coming in over the day.

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