I’ve always been curious about how many French expats voted for Le Pen. So a while back, I mapped the vote share published by embassies during the last round of the 2017 election. Almost 60,000 made the mental gymnastics to vote for xenophobia while living in another country.
I decided to limit the count to embassies which had received more than 200 votes. Smaller vote shares really threw of the scale- For instance, only 14 people voted at the embassy in Syria, but Le Pen got 64% of them.
You might notice a pretty high overlap with countries hosting lots of french military personnel (Djibouti, Gabon, Lebanon). The only country here where Le Pen got more than 40% was Djibouti where she managed to get 610 of the 1530 votes cast.
Far-right expatriates
