Who voted for Sarkozy and who did not.

Those who voted for Nicolas Sakrozy (conservative)?

• people from 25 to 34 years old (working youths) (57% of the votes)
• people from 60 to 69 years old (61%)
• people over 70 years old (68%)
• people without a degree (51%)
• men (54%) and more surprisingly women (52%)

Where?

• in rural areas (57%)
• in smaller cities (of fewer than 100,000 people) (55%)
• in 16 regions (out of a total of 22) (North and East)

What jobs?

• artisans and shopkeepers (82%)
• farmers (67%)
• professionals and senior executives (52%)
• employees in the private sector(53%)
• independent workers (77%)
• retirees (65%)
• people on ‘lower middle incomes’ (53%), ‘middle incomes’ (52%), 'top incomes' (57%)

Who voted for Ségolène royale (Socialist)

• people from 18 to 24 years old(58%)
• people from 45 to 59 years old (55%)

Where?

• 6 regions in the West (Auvergne, Poitou-Charentes, Aquitaine, Bretagne, Midi-Pyrénées, Limousin.)

What jobs?

• employees (51%)
• low-skilled workers (54%)
• employees in the public sector (57%)
• unemployed (75%)
• students (58%)
• people on low incomes (56%)

Equal split between Sarkoy and Royal:

• people from 35 to 44 years old
• people in the cities of more than 100,000 habitants and in the Paris area.
  

Motivation for voting
- 77% of Nicolas Sarkozy’s electorate « wanted him to be the president », which is 22 more points than those who voted for Ségolène Royal for whom «blocking Nicolas Sarkozy » was a major motivation (42%).

Source: http://www.ipsos.fr/CanalIpsos/poll/8450.asp