Table 8. Entropy of the themes addressed by each candidate, and its 3–community.

The two dominant themes as well as their associated percentages are also shown. The maximum entropy is 3.46, if the 11 themes are discussed in a uniform manner. With respect to the selected themes, Benoît Hamon is the candidate who uniformly addressed the greatest number of themes, whereas François Asselineau is the candidate who was the most focused on a subset of themes (including foreign policy and democracy). The variations in attention paid by the candidates to these themes are plotted in Figs I to N in S1 File.

Name	Entropy	# themes	Dominant themes	%
François Asselineau	2.63	6.2	foreign policy, democracy	57.7
François Fillon	3.06	8.3	immigration and multiculturalism, democracy	33.5
Benoît Hamon	3.19	9.1	employment, foreign policy	39.3
Marine Le Pen	2.78	6.9	immigration and multiculturalism, foreign policy	49.0
Emmanuel Macron	3.03	8.2	foreign policy, democracy	44.2
Jean-Luc Mélenchon	3.10	8.6	democracy, foreign policy	37.3
All candidates	3.08	8.4	foreign policy, democracy	36.9