Voters largely shunned the polls on Sunday in France for the second round of municipal elections, a ballot with national stakes marked by an environmentalist push (which is offered by big cities like Lyon or Marseille) and by a presidential party in difficulty in several large cities, despite the victory of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
Edouard Philippe indeed won it at Havre with 58.83% of the vote against the PCF deputy Jean-Paul Lecoq. Philippe hailed “net results”, seeing it as an “act of trust”. The abstention rate was 58% in this port city which had swung to the right in 1995 after three decades of PCF mayor.
PS Mayor Anne Hidalgo won the victory in Paris , obtaining between 49.3 and 50.2% of the votes in the second round, according to two polling institutes. Ms. Hidalgo was ahead of candidate LR Rachida Dati (between 32 and 32.7%) and that of LREM Agnès Buzyn (between 13.7 and 16% of the vote), according to Harris Interactive and Ipsos-Sopra Steria.
The socialist mayor of Little Martine Aubry won with a short head, ahead “of about 200 votes” her environmental competitor Stéphane Baly, announced to AFP his entourage. The suspense lasted a good part of the beginning of the evening, the polls giving the two candidates neck and neck, largely in front of the macronist candidate Violette Spillebout.
Perpignan for the RN
The deputy RN Louis Aliot, opposed in duel to
Perpignan Jean-Marc Pujol, outgoing mayor, told AFP on Sunday that he had won the municipal election. “According to the figures I have, we have won. It is a system that is collapsing. We have had the same political staff in Perpignan at the helm since 1959,” he added. In the first round, Mr. Aliot had clearly turned in the lead, with 35.6% of the vote.
Big cities for environmentalists
A Marseille , the ecologist Rubirola would be largely in the lead with 10 points ahead.
Another highly anticipated city … Lyon ! The ecologist Grégory Doucet comes far ahead with more than 50% of the vote and more than 20 points ahead of his opponents, according to three polling institutes.
A Bordeaux , the ecologist Hurmic is just ahead of Florian (LR / LREM).
Ecologist Jeanne Barseghian beat LREM candidate Alain Fontanel, supported by the right, in the second round of the municipal elections in Strasbourg , according to an Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimate. The ecologist obtained 42.5% of the votes against 34.3% for Mr. Fontanel. Socialist Catherine Trautmann comes in third with 23.2% of the vote, according to this estimate.
However, at Toulouse, Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR-LREM) leads, with 51.6% of the vote, ahead of the list on the left of Antoine Maurice (48.4%), according to the pollster Ipsos Sopra Steria.
The outgoing LR and macron-compatible mayor should thus be reappointed at the head of the 4th city of France, after a very close duel with his environmental rival, who led a union of the left associating Insoumis, communists, socialists and left radicals with a citizen nucleus.
The outgoing mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi (Les Républicains) claimed his victory in his city, where he claims to have “largely” surpassed the Nice ecological list and the National Gathering. “At the end of this second round, it is up to me to proclaim the almost final results (…). The list that I had the honor of leading came largely in the lead with 59.3%” of the votes cast “, a “He announced on the forecourt of the town hall. According to Mr. Estrosi, the Nice Ecological list achieved 19.4% and that of the National Rally 21.3%. Participation was limited to 27.8%.
A Montpellier, the socialist Delafosse would largely precede the outgoing diverse left Saurel, according to an estimate.
Other results
Socialist Mathieu Klein wins him over Nancy with 54.3 to 55.2% of the vote, facing outgoing Laurent Hénard (Rad-LREM-MoDem), according to estimates by two polling institutes. Mathieu Klein (PC / PCF / EELV) collected 53.3% of the votes, according to Harris Interactive Epoka for TFI-LCI and RTL and 55.2% according to IPSOS Sopra Steria for France Télévisions, Radio France and Les Chaînes parliamentary.
MoDem president François Bayrou was re-elected mayor of Pau . According to Ifop Fiducial for M6 and Sud Radio, Mr. Bayrou was re-elected with 55.5% of the vote against Jérôme Marbot (PS, 44.5%).
The environmental candidate Anne Vignot leads her opponent Ludovic Fagaut (LR) with a short head during the municipal elections in Besancon , after having collected between 43.6% and 43.9% of the votes, according to two estimates.
The deputy RN of the Pas-de-Calais Ludovic Pajot won Sunday evening the municipal election of Bruay-la-Buissière, a municipality of 22,000 inhabitants of the former mining basin, announced Marine Le Pen to AFP. MP for the 10th district and regional councilor, Ludovic Pajot, 26, would win with 51% to 52% of the vote before Bernard Caillau (ex-PS) at the end of this election where the left was disunited, according to another source RN.
Environmentalist Emmanuel Denis claimed victory at Tours , facing outgoing mayor Christophe Bouchet (UDI, supported by LR). “We succeeded in transforming the dynamics of the first round into the dynamics of victory. And it is a great satisfaction. (…) I am also very happy to be part of this green wave”, declared the candidate EELV, supported by several left parties.
Participation down at 5 p.m., here are the departments that voted the most
Turnout at 5:00 p.m. in the second round of the municipal elections stood at 34.67%, four points below what it was at the same time in the first round on March 15 (38.77%), according to figures. from the Ministry of the Interior.
Participation was almost 18 points lower at 5 p.m. than in the second round of municipal elections in 2014 (52.36%), and almost 20 points lower than in 2008 (54.45%).
Three polling institutes also estimate that total voter turnout will range from 40 to 41% at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, when polling stations close, compared to 62.2% in the second round in 2014.
At noon, attendance was already down three points from the first round.
Participation is one of the main issues in the poll, while less than one in two voters – 44.3%, compared to 63.5% in 2014 – had come to vote on March 15 due to the risk of contamination. with coronavirus.
The departments that voted the most at 5:00 p.m. are Corse du Sud (71.02%), Cantal (61.76%), Lozère (60.24%), Hautes-Alpes (57.48%) and the Landes (54.95%).
The departments that mobilized the least are Seine-Saint-Denis (21.47%), Paris (23.89%), Ille-et-Vilaine (24.23%), Val d’Oise (25 , 54%) and Val-de-Marne (26.04%).
In addition, voters in the three highly populated departments of Bouches-du-Rhône (33.46%), Rhône (32%) and Nord (31.85%) moved in proportions close to the national average.
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