Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the most common questions about Affinité politique.
We do not ask for your name, email or registration. We store your answers with a random identifier, together with the approximate region and city of your connection, your browser and a hash of your IP address made with a secret key, which cannot be used to recover the address and serves to prevent abuse. The hash, the browser and the city are deleted after 12 months; the region is kept for statistics. Your age and the candidate you would vote for are optional and never appear in the sharing link. The processing is therefore pseudonymous, not anonymous, and we prefer to be precise about it. Details are in our Privacy Policy.
We compare your answers with each candidate’s documented position: their programme and public statements, the votes of their party’s group in the National Assembly and the European Parliament and, until they publish their 2027 programme, their party’s 2022 programme. We analyse how closely you match across 12 topic categories and calculate a match percentage with each candidate.
The test has 46 questions covering the issues debated in France ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Depending on the mode you choose, it will take you between 7 and 10 minutes to complete.
The test includes 11 candidates for the 2027 presidential election. Until the official list is published, a candidate is included if they have declared their candidacy or been designated by their party and, in addition, are backed by a party with a group in the National Assembly or reach at least 2% in the surveys of two different polling institutes over the last four weeks. When the Constitutional Council publishes the official list of candidates (expected on 16 March 2027), the test will include exactly the candidates on that list. Every change is recorded in the revision log on the methodology page.
Yes, the test is available in French and English. You can change the language at any time using the selector on the page.
Yes, when you finish the test you get a unique link that you can share on social media or with friends. You can also use the comparison tool to see how politically compatible you are with other people.
The political compass is a visualisation that places your ideological position on two axes: left–right (economic) and progressive–conservative (social). It lets you see graphically where you stand in relation to the candidates.
No, this test is completely independent and neutral. We receive no money from any political party, candidate, campaign, government, company or related organisation. The questions are worded neutrally, without mentioning specific candidates or parties. Our aim is to provide an educational tool for citizens.
It reflects the average distance between your answers and the candidate’s positions, not the percentage of questions on which you agree. Each question scores according to how far apart you are: an exact match gives the maximum score, being one point apart already drops it to 56% for that question, and being at opposite extremes gives zero. In addition, your firm answers carry more weight than neutral ones. It is explained in detail with a real example on the methodology page.
Currently all 11 candidates have a position on all 46 questions; those not backed by an explicit document are marked as estimated. If a candidate were missing a position (when they are added or when a new question is added), it would not be made up: that question would be left out of their calculation, counting neither for nor against them. Each candidate’s profile shows how many of their positions are sourced and how many are estimated.
From each candidate’s programme and public statements. Until a candidate publishes their programme for 2027, we also use the votes of their party’s group in the National Assembly and the European Parliament and their party’s 2022 programme, and we say so next to each position. Each position has its justification shown in the candidate profiles and, where we have found the specific document, a link to the source. Positions we have inferred from a candidate’s overall stance, without a document that states them explicitly, are marked as estimated, so that you know what you are relying on.
Yes, and it is the most useful message we can receive. We need the candidate, the specific question, the position you think they should have and the document that supports it (a page of their programme, a statement with its date or a vote by their party’s group). We check it against that source, correct it where appropriate and cite the document on the candidate’s profile. Full instructions are on the contact page.
For now it has no income at all: no advertising, no donations, no sale of reports. The costs are paid by its author, and no party, candidate, government or company pays anything. If there is ever advertising or donations, we will explain it on the transparency page: advertising would never appear within the test, in your result, in shared results or in the comparison tool, nor would it be chosen based on your answers, and no money would be accepted from parties, foundations, candidates or campaigns.
No. It is not an opinion poll within the meaning of the French law of 19 July 1977 (loi n° 77-808). The people in that data came to the site of their own accord: there is no representative sample, no quotas, no weighting and no calculable margin of error. It describes the people who take the test, who need not resemble the population as a whole, and it cannot tell you what France thinks or how people will vote. We only publish aggregates with a minimum of one hundred responses per cell. You can see them in the barometer.
No. Affinité politique is a personal, independent project, free and with no registration. It has no connection with any party, candidate, the Government or the French electoral authorities, and it is not an opinion poll. It helps you compare your views with those of the candidates, but it does not tell you who to vote for. To find out when and how to vote in the 2027 presidential election, see the official information on service-public.fr. We explain how we calculate the result on the methodology page.
Both questions are optional and include “Prefer not to say”. Your age is used for aggregated statistics by age group; your vote, to show you — and only you — where you agree and disagree with the candidate you would vote for and for internal statistics that are never published. Neither is used to calculate your match, and your answer is never shown individually.
French is the only official language of the Republic (Article 2 of the Constitution) and every voter can read it, so it is the main language of the site. The English version is for people living in France who are more comfortable in English and for the international press. We do not offer regional or overseas languages such as Breton, Occitan, Basque, Corsican, Alsatian or the creoles: we have no native-speaker reviewers, and a poor translation of the candidates’ positions would mislead the very people it was meant to help. Offering only one or two of them could also be read as taking sides in a debate that is part of the campaign.
Because in the presidential election you vote for a person, not for a party list. Each candidate presents their own programme, and some are backed by several parties. That is why each profile is about one candidate, and says which party they belong to or which parties back them. Until a candidate publishes their programme, we use their public statements, the votes of their party’s group in the National Assembly and the European Parliament and their party’s 2022 programme, and we mark where each position comes from.