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...Though he ran first in the field, he got only 44% of the votes cast. Leftist Francois Mitterrand polled a surprising 32%. Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet came from nowhere to win 16%, and the three other candidates garnered a total of 8%. The result forced De Gaulle into a runoff next week with Mitterrand-the most resounding and unexpected defeat for a Western political leader since Britain turned Winston Churchill out of office...
...runoff election will almost certainly be held on Dec. 19 between DeGaulle and Francois Mitterrand, the Socialist candidate who finished behind DeGaulle and ahead of Jean Lecanuet, a young moderate who calls himself the French Kennedy. Lecanuet was credited with having kept from DeGaulle the crucial five per cent of the vote which would have meant election...
There is no doubt that DeGaulle will win the runoff election, H. Stuart Hughes professor of History, emphasized last night. He said that Lecanuet and DeGaulle drew support from basically the same group of voters, and that most of Lecanuet's vote will shift to DeGaulle...
...addition, Higonnet explained, many different groups in France object to DeGaulle for different reasons. Intellectuals object to his international conservatism, the "rank and file" to his domestic conservatism. However, he thinks that DeGaulle will win the runoff election if he chooses to run. "People might get scared," Higonnet said. "They know there can be a runoff, so on the first vote they can afford to vote for someone they don't really want...
Burns's only official opponent so far is Robert King High, 41, now in his fifth term as mayor of Miami, who announced his candidacy last week. High ran against Burns in the 1964 primary runoff and won a surprising 42% of the vote. Like Collins, High would count heavily on moderates and Negroes in opposing Burns, who is a mild segregationist...