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Independent centrist Macron estimated to have taken around 23% of vote with Front National leader Le Pen on roughly 22%,

It is worth underlining that this is the first time in modern French history that neither of the mainstream centre-right or centre-left parties of government that have governed France since the second world war have qualified for the second round of a presidential election.