Municipal elections 2026 in Paris: candidates, voting technique and outcomes of the primary spherical | EUROtoday
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Capital concern. The most anticipated vote within the municipal elections in France, the battle for Paris, after weeks of hectic and generally tense campaigning, will ship, on Sunday March 15, the names of the candidates certified for the second spherical. The proper hopes to wrest the city corridor from the left, in cost since 2001. But the left, whose union exterior La France insoumise is unprecedented, is ready to maintain Paris. The suspense is whole with probably 5 candidates – Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Horizons), Sophia Chikirou (La France insoumise), Rachida Dati (Les Républicains), Emmanuel Grégoire (Socialist Party), Sarah Knafo (Reconquête) – who might entry the second spherical and thus give rise to a quinquangular.
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What you must know earlier than the outcomes
Municipal elections happen on March 15 and 22. Municipal councilors are elected by direct common suffrage for six years, then the mayor is elected by the municipal council and never instantly by voters.
In Paris, as in Lyon and Marseille, a reform of the voting technique voted in 2025 comes into pressure for these municipal elections. Until now, voters voted for a listing inside their district. The first elected officers from every record then sat on each the district council and the Paris council. From now on, Parisians will vote twice, in two separate poll packing containers: a primary time to elect their district council and a second time to elect the municipal council, and subsequently the long run mayor of Paris.
Who are the candidates?
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Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Horizons, Renaissance, The Centrists, The New Center, Cap21, Independent Environmental Movement)
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Blandine Chauvel (New Anti-Capitalist Party-Revolutionaries)
- Sophia Chikirou (La France insoumise, Left Party, Independent Workers’ Party, Popular Greens)
- Rachida Dati (Les Républicains, MoDem, UDI, Radical Party)
- Emmanuel Grégoire (Socialist Party, The Ecologists, French Communist Party, Public Square, After, Republican and Socialist Left)
- Sarah Knafo (Reconquest)
- Thierry Mariani (National Rally, UDR, Identity-Liberties)
- Mahel Pierot-Guimbaud (Workers’ Party)
- Marielle Saulnier (Workers’ battle)
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The earlier election in 2020
During the 2020 municipal elections, socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo got here first in a primary spherical marked by a powerful abstention linked to the arrival in France of the Covid-19 pandemic. Already a candidate, Rachida Dati (Les Républicains) got here in second place, adopted by Agnès Buzyn (La République en marche), David Belliard (Europe Écologie-Les Verts) and Cédric Villani (LREM dissident).
Due to the well being disaster, the second spherical happened a number of months later. The left-wing alliance led by Anne Hidalgo got here nicely forward to retain the city corridor.
2026 first spherical outcomes
The outcomes of the primary spherical in Paris will likely be added right here as official updates are acquired. This web page will likely be up to date with:
- the general ends in the capital
- outcomes by district
- the primary political classes to recollect
- the prospects for the second spherical
In the meantime, our reside stream follows the vote all day, the participation, the highlights and the primary reviews from the capital and different main French cities.
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