The candidates are tied at 25% in the first round of voting but the far-right leader is set to lose to the centrist candidate with 39% to 61% of the votes, the Le Monde/Cevipof poll shows.
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Poll shows Le Pen in a dead heat with Macron in the 1st round but getting crushed by Macron in the 2nd round
Voter certainty rose compared with the previous survey, with 82% of Le Pen voters certain of their choice, 75% of Fillon voters, and 61% of Macron voters.
Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Forward !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, sings the French national anthem at the end of a political rally in Lille, France January 14, 2017.
François Fillon, the embattled conservative candidate, came in third in the first round of voting with 17.5% of the votes.
Far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon came in fourth with 15% of the votes and mainstream Socialist party candidate, who would effectively be President François Hollande's successor is coming in fourth with 10%.
Voter certainty rose compared with the previous survey, with 82% of Le Pen voters certain of their choice, 75% of Fillon voters, 61% of Macron voters, 60% of Mélenchon voters, and 52% of Hamon voters.
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The poll surveyed 14,300 people between March 31 and April 2 and was published before the Tuesday night TV debate which had all 11 candidates debate for almost four hours.
In snap polls taken right after the debate, Mélenchon was seen as the most convincing candidate, followed by Macron in second position, Fillon in third, and Le Pen in fourth.
The polls also showed that Macron was seen as having the best program by 23% of viewers, followed by Mélenchon.
Although the polls for the second round of the elections show Macron as a clear winner, the persistent voter uncertainty and high likelihood of masses of people protesting the election by not voting, the results of the election are still far from certain.
The first round of the elections will take place on April 23 and the second round, which will determine who the new French president is, on May 7.
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