Voting in French elections from the US
A French citizen living in the United States can vote from abroad in presidential, legislative and European elections, in referendums, and in the elections of consular councilors. Municipal and regional elections need registration in a French town. Everything starts with the consular electoral list.
Getting on the list
You must be 18 or older, have your civil and political rights and be registered on the consular electoral list, which you can join up to six weeks before an election.
If you are on the Registre, you register, check or change it online on Service-Public.fr; otherwise, you contact the consulate of your place of residence. Joining the consular list removes you from your previous list automatically.
A teenager already on the Registre who turns 18 before an election is put on the list automatically.
Voting by proxy
If you cannot vote on the day, another voter can vote for you, at your polling station. You pre-fill the proxy on maprocuration.gouv.fr, or print the Cerfa, and then validate it in person at a consulate, by appointment, except in New York, whose page says no appointment is needed.
The network's voting page lists one contact per consulate for those appointments.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Age | 18 or older |
| Registration deadline | 6 weeks before the election |
| Elections from abroad | Presidential, legislative, European, referendums, consular |
| Not from abroad | Municipal and regional elections |
| Proxy | maprocuration.gouv.fr, then validation at a consulate |
- Your registration on the consular electoral list
- A proxy pre-filled on maprocuration.gouv.fr or the printed Cerfa
- An ID for the validation appointment
- Your voter’s national number, if you have it
Some consulates also collect proxies outside their offices: Boston's April 2026 mission to Portland, Maine, took them, Chicago announced outreach missions in the first half of 2027 to collect proxies for the presidential election, and the Louisiana honorary consuls list proxies among their services.
What is coming
The consular elections were held on May 30, 2026. The ministry is testing a new internet voting solution in November 2026, and San Francisco asked for volunteers among its voters by October 7, 2026.
Proxies, consulate by consulate
A proxy can cover a single election or a set period, and the network advises giving it as soon as the election date is known. Once it is pre-filled online or printed, you validate it at your consulate; these are the contacts the network lists:
- Atlanta: by appointment, info.atlanta-fslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- Boston: by appointment, consulat.boston-cslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- Chicago: by appointment, info.chicago-cslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- Houston: by appointment, infos.houston-fslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- New Orleans: by appointment, info@consulfrance-nouvelleorleans.org
- Los Angeles: by appointment, info.los-angeles-fslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- Miami: by appointment, francais.miami-fslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- New York: no appointment needed, social.new-york-cslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- San Francisco: by appointment, elections.san-francisco-fslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- Washington: by appointment, info.washington-fslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr
If you leave the US, you register on the list of your new town in France, or on another consular list, online; that removes you from the current one.
Six weeks before the election, the list closes.Official sources: Voter à l'étranger; Service-Public.fr, vote d’un Français établi à l’étranger; Tournée consulaire “passeports” et “Elections” à Portland le 30 avril 2026.; Tournées consulaires 2026; Appel à volontaires : participez au test de la nouvelle solution de vote par internet.
Details checked against the official pages on October 6, 2026.
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