Macron wins French election run-off

Summary

Emmanuel Macron defeats Marine Le Pen to win French presidency
He won over 66% of the vote
Macron set up his centrist En Marche movement only 13 months ago
He has promised to fight division and promote hope and reconciliation
Marine Le Pen hailed a "historic, massive result" for the far right
Turnout was around 74%, the lowest for a run-off in almost 50 years

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Laurence Peter and Tom Spender

'An open, forward-looking and European future'published at 19:10 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
First reaction from Gérard Araud, the French ambassador to Washington.
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Reaction from our teams in Francepublished at 19:08 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
How have people responded to Macron's win? This is what our staff in France saw...
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National Front bars mediapublished at 19:08 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Websites Buzzfeed and Mediapart, as well as Britain's Sky News and the Italian public TV channel Rai, are among the news outlets barred from the FN event at Vincennes east of Paris
Who is France's new president?published at 19:07 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
A profile of the political novice who smashed the dominance of France's main parties
The normalisation of the far right?published at 19:05 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
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'Highest score for far right in French history'published at 19:05 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
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France's youngest ever presidentpublished at 19:05 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
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Car horns sounding in Parispublished at 19:04 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Car horns sounded around the Arc de Triomphe as the exit polls were transmitted, the BBC's Malcolm Senior reports.
In detail: The first projected resultpublished at 19:03 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Meanwhile, a poll for France 2 Television put Macron on 65.1% and Le Pen on 34.9%.
BFM Television had Macron on 65.9 % and Le Pen on 34.1%.
Macron wins French electionpublished at 19:00 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
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Centrist Emmanuel Macron beats Marine Le Pen to the French presidency, winning about 65 of the vote, according to a projection by Kantar Public One Point-TF1-RTL.
All eyes on the screenpublished at 18:56 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
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'France's future at stake'published at 18:52 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
The BBC's Christian Fraser spoke to Dominique Moisi of the French Institute of International Relations.
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An unusual spoilt ballotpublished at 18:51 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Vote counters in Chinon, in the Centre region, have found a ballot slip for Charles de Gaulle. He was of course the first president under France's Fifth Republic and died in 1970.
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Macron crowd ever biggerpublished at 18:47 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
More and more supporters are arriving at the Louvre for their candidate, as this video tweeted by French freelance reporter Amandine Sanchez suggests.
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Watch live BBC TV coveragepublished at 18:47 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Click the link below the headline "France votes for a new president" to watch live BBC TV coverage as the polls close in France and the result comes in.
We have reporters across France as well as expert commentators to analyse the result and talk about where the country goes from here.
Tense atmosphere at Le Pen HQpublished at 18:47 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
"At Chalet du Lac (FN), journalists are cordoned in tightly," tweets Hugo Domenach, a journalist at French magazine Le Point. "Forced to stay put. Atmosphere very tense."
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Photographer 'ejected from Le Pen event'published at 18:45 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Yann Castanier, a French photographer, says he was just ejected from the Marine Le Pen event in Vincennes. The reasons are unclear.
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Getting ready for the resultspublished at 18:45 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Macron supporters are helping themselves to a colourful array of clothing as they await the decision of the French electorate.
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Exit polls or not?published at 18:43 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
When the first results come in, in just a few minutes time, at 20:00 French time (18:00 GMT, they won't be exit polls but projections.
The crucial difference is that what we'll see is a sample taken from actual polls across Sunday. They're generally seen as very reliable as a result.
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How do the candidates differ?published at 18:40 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
France's main news agency is running this handy guide.
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