Annecy, Lyon, Grenoble, the green wave has mainly passed west of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The symbol is spectacular in Annecy: François Astorg, candidate EELV, wins the town hall of the capital of Haute-Savoie, by 27 votes ahead of the outgoing mayor, Jean-Luc Rigaut (UDI), supported by LRM. The environmental candidates keep Grenoble, where Eric Piolle confirms its dynamic of the first round, obtaining 53.13% in the prefecture of Isère.
In Lyon, Grégory Doucet amplifies his scores in the first round. For his first term, the environmental candidate won seven of the nine districts of the capital of Gaul, with an overall result that exceeded 52%.
Allied to the right, Gérard Collomb is defeated even in his historic stronghold of the 9e borough. The trend is confirmed by the results of the election of the metropolitan area of Lyon: environmentalists won the absolute majority of the 150 councilors spread over 14 constituencies. Bruno Bernard (EELV) is able to take the presidency of the second French metropolis.
Ecology gives colors to the left where the lists have merged. It thus recorded comfortable results in certain bastions of the Lyon periphery such as Vaulx-en-Velin, with the large victory of Hélène Geoffroy (PS). Or in Villeurbanne, with the final score of more than 70% of Cédric Van Styvendael (PS), allied with the ecologist Béatrice Vessilier. Michèle Picard (PCF) was re-elected in a quadrangular at Vénissieux, with 40.02% of the votes. In Chambéry, Thierry Repentin (PS) takes over the Savoy prefecture by defeating the outgoing mayor Michel Dantin (LR).
The outgoing LR elected officials avoided the rout in the Lyon region, in Caluire, Meyzieu, and Rillieux-la-Pape, as well as in Saint-Etienne (Loire), where Gaël Perdriau (LR) won with 58.91% of the votes . Among the less expected performances on the right, that of Jérémie Breaud (LR), who beats Jean-Michel Longueval (PS), the outgoing mayor of Bron, by some 200 votes.
No changeover in Auvergne
The green wave seems to have been stopped in Auvergne, where no big city is rocking. The mayors elected in 2014, or their designated successors, received a real outgoing bonus. The dynamics of the first round were in most cases amplified. La République en Marche (LRM) misses its local presence in the Massif Central.
In Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme), Olivier Bianchi (PS, 48.42%), at the head in the first round of a broad coalition bringing together all the families of the left except the “rebellious” , sets out again for a second mandate in a city which had been acquired by the socialists since the Liberation. However, he had to make a large place on his list to EELV representatives. He is clearly ahead of Jean-Pierre Brenas (LR, 36.50%). The far left, led by Marianne Maximi (LFI, 15.08%), remains strong in the Auvergne capital. In Aurillac (Cantal), the socialist Pierre Mathonier also kept his seat with 59.24% of the vote.
In these two cities, the rallying of the LRM candidates, who came in third position, to the candidates on the right did not shake the outgoing majorities. These alliances had been repudiated by the presidential party, which probably cut short all electoral dynamics. The two mayors in place even benefited from a marked improvement in their score in the first round, the LRM-right alliance having proved very counterproductive at Aurillac.
In Allier, LR keeps the three main cities. Pierre-André Périssol (48.14%) is re-elected in Moulins and Frédéric Laporte (31.46%) in Montluçon. At Vichy, Frédéric Aguilera was renewed in the first round (74.11%).
Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) also remains on the right with the re-election in the first round of Michel Chapuis, who had succeeded Laurent Wauquiez in 2016.
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