Municipal elections 2026: the outcomes of the primary spherical in the primary cities of France | EUROtoday

If the problem of the municipal elections is primarily native, the outcomes of this election, one 12 months earlier than the 2027 presidential election, will even have nationwide significance. Voters are known as to the polls on Sunday March 15 for the primary spherical of elections. The foremost French cities, together with Paris, Marseille and Lyon, shall be significantly scrutinized, as will the steadiness of energy between political events and the alliances that can emerge. This web page will deliver collectively the outcomes of the cities to comply with all through election evening.

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The ten largest French cities

A symbolic metropolis, the capital will focus political consideration, particularly because the election seems to be significantly unsure with the departure of outgoing mayor Anne Hidalgo. The proper hopes to take again Paris, led by the left since 2001. The first spherical may end in an unprecedented quinquangular: the 2 favorites Emmanuel Grégoire (Socialist Party) and Rachida Dati (Les Républicains), but additionally the outsiders Sarah Knafo (Reconquête), Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Horizons) and Sophia Chikirou (La France insoumise) appear in a position to qualify for the second spherical.

France’s second metropolis may provide one of the watched duels of the night. The marketing campaign confirmed a robust stress between the outgoing mayor Benoît Payan and the National Rally candidate Franck Allisio, whereas the appropriate, with Martine Vassal, is attempting not to surrender and the rebellious Sébastien Delogu may play spoilsport on the left.

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In Lyon, the outgoing environmentalist mayor Grégory Doucet is taking part in out his municipal future in a tough context dealing with the previous president of the Olympique Lyonnais soccer membership Jean-Michel Aulas, supported by the appropriate and the macronie. In 2020, the town grew to become a logo of the nice outcomes of environmentalists over the last municipal elections. This time it may very well be a brand new illustration of the decline noticed lately in ecological points in political debates in France.

The outgoing mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc, supported by the appropriate and the macronie, is confronted with a left united (excluding La France insoumise) round François Briançon and who hopes to show the town the other way up. But the steadiness of the second spherical will rely particularly on the burden of the rebellious candidate François Piquemal, who may play the position of arbiter if he maintains or of kingmaker within the occasion of a union.

Nice is the scene of the duel between the enemy brothers Christian Estrosi and Éric Ciotti – a duel which took a authorized flip within the remaining weeks of the marketing campaign. The metropolis is likely one of the strongholds to comply with for the appropriate, but additionally to measure the capability of the National Rally and its allies to have affect in a big metropolis.

Outgoing socialist mayor Johanna Rolland hopes to protect a metropolis traditionally anchored to the left. The night will enable us to measure the resistance of its majority within the face of a proper which intends to return to the municipal sport.

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Montpellier presents a extra fragmented configuration, with an outgoing mayor, the socialist Michaël Delafosse, effectively established, however a number of candidacies are more likely to weigh on the steadiness of energy within the second spherical, like that of the rebellious Nathalie Oziol or that of the proprietor of Montpellier Hérault Rugby, Mohed Altrad, director of the development group of the identical title.

The Alsatian capital is the scene of a battle of the left. The outgoing environmentalist mayor Jeanne Barseghian, whose file is broadly criticized, is challenged by the ex-socialist mayor Catherine Trautmann in an surprising duel, whereas the Socialist Party and the Ecologists are making frequent trigger in lots of cities.

An “outsider” is muddying the waters within the Gironde prefecture: the economist and tutorial Philippe Dessertine set out in September 2025 with out a label, on the head of an “outside the system” checklist, thwarting the designs of the Macronist deputy Thomas Cazenave, candidate of the appropriate and the middle, who goals to oust the outgoing environmentalist mayor Pierre Hurmic, supported by the PS, the PCF and Génération.s. A race for the rostrum which leaves uncertainty surrounding the end result of the vote.

Who to embody the post-Martine Aubry, who resigned in March 2025 after 24 consecutive years in workplace? His inheritor obvious, the socialist Arnaud Deslandes, who succeeded him, confronted eight candidates with the help of the Communist Party and Place Publique. The ecologist Stéphane Baly, who nearly received in 2020, 227 votes behind Martine Aubry, desires to consider it. Also within the operating for a spot within the second spherical are the rebellious Lahouaria Addouche, the Renaissance MP Violette Spillebout and the National Rally MEP Matthieu Valet.

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MP Laure Lavalette, spokesperson for the RN, carries the hopes of the far proper on this division of Var the place seven of the eight MPs come from the National Rally. It was the constituency of Toulon which escaped the occasion within the early legislative elections of 2024 (Yannick Chenevard, Renaissance, received towards RN Sébastien Soulé). Facing Laure Lavalette, outgoing mayor Les Républicains Josée Massi and senator LR Michel Nonnus are competing for the succession of former mayor Hubert Falco, dismissed from workplace in May 2023 after a conviction for concealment of embezzlement of public funds. Against all expectations, Hubert Falco, nonetheless influential, took Michel Bonnus as runner-up after initially approaching Josée Massi. The former first deputy, now labeled “various right”, launched a dissident checklist.

With the presidential election in his sights, Édouard Philippe is looking for a brand new mandate in Le Havre, removed from being sure, with the end result of the vote probably launching or significantly jeopardizing his marketing campaign for the Élysée. Mayor of the port metropolis since 2010, elected within the first spherical in 2014 and the second in 2020, the previous Prime Minister may very well be threatened by the communist deputy Jean-Paul Lecoq, within the speculation of a triangular with the far-right UDR-RN candidate Franck Keller.

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Led by ecologist Éric Piolle since 2014, Grenoble is getting ready to elect a brand new mayor. The union of the left exterior the LFI is led by Laurence Ruffin, the sister of the Somme deputy François Ruffin. His victory is, nevertheless, removed from sure since former mayor Alain Carignon is within the race, supported by the appropriate and the macronie.

The outgoing mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot (National Rally), is the clear favourite within the vote. Behind the vice-president of the far-right occasion, two left-wing lists ought to compete for second place: the PS-Place Publique checklist led by the vice-president of the Occitanie area Agnès Langevine and that of the rebellious Mickaël Idrac. The candidate of the union of the appropriate and the middle Bruno Nougayrède may additionally attain the second spherical.

The rebellious deputy David Guiraud appears in a great place to win the city corridor of Roubaix. This shut pal of Jean-Luc Mélenchon is against Karim Amrouni, on the head of a varied left-wing checklist, to the outgoing centrist mayor Alexandre Garcin and to the National Rally candidate Céline Sayah.

Nearly six months after his departure from Matignon, overthrown by a movement of censure on September 8, former Prime Minister François Bayrou, who will rejoice his seventy fifth birthday in May, is looking for a 3rd time period in Pau, the town he has led since 2014. The Béarnais “cabourut” (cussed) is in his fifth municipal marketing campaign (he had failed in 1989 and 2008) within the metropolis of Henri IV. His opponents – there are six of them dealing with him, notably the centrist Philippe Arraou with whom he was shut – spotlight a nationwide file effectively beneath expectations, marked by a social coverage removed from centrism. Others query his nationwide ambitions even when he assures that he is not going to be a candidate within the 2027 presidential election.

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Children of the 80s and of the left, three of the 5 candidates vying to succeed the communist Gilles Poux in La Courneuve, who’s giving up the sash after three many years in workplace, have in frequent having grown up within the monumental metropolis of 4000: the socialist and present first deputy on the city corridor Oumarou Doucouré, the rebellious and deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Aly Diouara, and the one who was chosen by the outgoing mayor for him to succeed, his deputy for youth, integration and employment Nadia Chahboune.

In the Aude prefecture, the candidate of the National Rally, the deputy for the constituency Christophe Barthès, hopes to return to the success of the 2024 legislative elections on the head of the “Demain Carcassonne” checklist and is campaigning on safety within the face of a divided proper and a united left. The varied right-wing mayor Gérard Larrat is looking for a 3rd consecutive time period on the age of 84 towards his former chief of workers François Mourad. Alix Soler-Alcaraz is operating on the head of “United Carcassonne!”, supported by the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, The Ecologists, the Radical Left Party (PRG), Place publique and the Occitan Party.

A socialist bastion, Lens is with Hénin-Beaumont the opposite “target” of the National Rally within the former mining basin of northern France. The outgoing socialist mayor Sylvain Robert (in energy since 2013) goes into battle on the head of a big union of the left towards the RN deputy for the constituency Bruno Clavet, who intends to supply his occasion “a strong symbol” of its energy in Pas-de-Calais.

It is on this city on the Côte d’Azur that Louis Sarkozy, the son of the previous president, selected to enter politics.

First spherical outcomes

The outcomes of the primary spherical in these twenty cities shall be added right here as official studies are obtained. This web page shall be up to date with:

• metropolis ​​by metropolis outcomes
• the primary political classes to recollect
• the prospects for the second spherical

In the meantime, our dwell stream follows the vote all day, the participation, the highlights and the primary studies from the capital and different main French cities.