The Socialist Party and its allies took 21.85% of the vote, behind former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s resurgent conservative UMP party and its centrist allies with 29.4%. The anti-immigration, anti-European National Front took 25.19%; an almost 10 point improvement on a comparable poll in 2011 - http://www.wsj.com/articles/first-round-results-confirm-rightward-shift-in-french-local-elections-1427131981