Three polling agencies are projecting that anti-immigrant National Front has been routed in regional election runoffs despite dominating the first-round vote.
Party leader Marine Le Pen and her niece lost their bids to run two French regions in elections today seen as an important test for the anti-immigrant party.
Polling agencies Ipsos, Ifop, TNS-Sofres projected that the opposition conservatives and governing Socialists won control of France's 13 regions.
They showed Le Pen won around 42 per cent of the vote in the Nord-Pas de Calais region, and rival conservative Xavier Bertrand about 57 per cent.
Le Pen's niece, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, was projected to win about 45 percent in the southern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region. Conservative Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi was projected to win about 55 per cent.
