This is a spectacular change compared to 2022. In Brittany, if the National Rally does not succeed, as across the country, in taking the lead in the number of votes (around 34% according to estimates), it achieves however a historic surge of 14.13 points, positioning itself in third position (27.76%), just behind the New Popular Front (29.46%) and Ensemble! (29.76%).
The RN in the second round in 26 out of 27 constituencies
Even more telling: the National Rally (nor its “ancestor” the National Front) has never managed to get one of its candidates to the second round of a legislative election. Not even in 2022, when the RN was in third place in the region after the first round (13.63%). This time, there will be a far-right candidate in all Breton constituencies… except one: the 8th constituency of Ille-et-Vilaine, the only constituency in Brittany to have elected a deputy in the first round in the person of Mickaël Bouloux (NFP).
The RN in the lead in five constituencies
The National Rally came first in five constituencies in Brittany (one in Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère and Ille-et-Vilaine, two in Morbihan). Sometimes even well ahead, as in the 3rd constituency of Morbihan, where the RN candidate Antoine Oliviero obtained 35.85% of the votes, well ahead of the 26.57% of the outgoing Macronist MP Nicole Le Peih.
RN in the lead: 17 times more municipalities than in 2022
In 2022, out of the 1,206 municipalities of administrative Brittany, 27 had placed an RN candidate in the lead in the first round of the legislative elections. Two years later, no fewer than 459 Breton municipalities have decided to propel a far-right candidate to the lead. The comparative map by municipality is particularly telling.
