France’s National Front party failed to win a single region in local election Sunday, exit polls show, after mainstream parties managed to block its candidates including the far-right party’s chief, Marine Le Pen, from taking advantage of leads in several regions.

President François Hollande’s Socialist party won between three and six of the 13 regions in metropolitan France while Nicolas Sarkozy’s Les Républicains party won in 5 to 9 regions, according to the Ipsos polling agency.

The National Front, which won more votes than any other in the election’s first round and were ahead in six regions last Sunday, fell short in the second-round after rivals rallied to ensure that the party would not win any regional presidency.