Macron’s Win
He won with over 58% of the vote. He did best in the cities, among the young and old and among those better off economically. https://www.politico.eu/article/macrons-france-vs-le-pens-france-in-charts/ LePen did best in rural areas and among those voters struggling economically.
Turn out was about 72%, and there were large numbers of blank and spoiled ballots. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220425-five-takeaways-from-france-s-presidential-vote Many of the blank votes were from the supporters of Melenchon, the left wing candidate who told his supporters not to vote for LePen, but did not encourage them to vote for Macron. https://www.euronews.com/2022/04/22/melenchon-s-supporters-could-be-kingmakers-in-france-s-presidential-election
The general takeaway is that LePen is doing better with working class voters than in the past. Macron has badly alienated the left-wing voters due to his pro-business policies. Melenchon (left) and LePen (far right) are virtually tied with voters who are opposed to Macron; it looks like the far right have about 40% of the French vote and the center-left about 60%. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-france-election/round-1.html
While Macron’s ability to support the EU, NATO and ally with the US will not be impaired; he will need to broaden his economic appeal to the working-class voters to both his left and his right. He did a good job of growing the economy in his first term https://www.businessfrance.fr/discover-france-news-the-french-economy-grows-7-in-2021 , but a poor job of remedying the highly uneven distribution of the benefits of the economic growth. https://voxeu.org/article/income-inequality-france
LePen’s embrace of Putin has hurt her appeal to French voters, but her anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric and proposed policies have had some attraction to people struggling economically amid France’s economic growth.