The RN in force in Hauts-de-France, Grand Est and on the Mediterranean coast
It is the National Rally which, without waiting for July 7, sends the largest contingent of candidates to the National Assembly, with 38 elected in the first round. This situation betrays the very strong dynamic set in motion by Marine Le Pen’s party; With the exception of the legislative elections of 1986, in which the voting was proportional (with only one round), the RN had never yet managed to elect a deputy in the first round.
The map of RN candidates who won a constituency on Sunday evening also reflects local balances. For the most part, RN elected officials are located in Hauts-de-France and Grand Est, in former industrial areas, long won over by the left, but where the party with the tricolor flame has managed to establish itself for about twenty years. The RN is now achieving some of its highest scores in these two regions.
Unsurprisingly, it is the main leaders of the party who benefit from this first wave of navy blue, starting with Marine Le Pen. The outgoing president of the group in the National Assembly collected 58.04% of the votes cast in her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont (11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais). His colleague Sébastien Chenu, former vice-president of the National Assembly, did even better in his 19th constituency in the North, with 58.34% of the votes. Still in Pas-de-Calais, Bruno Pictureformer chief of staff to Marine Le Pen, is close to 60% (12th constituency).
In the 2nd constituency of Oise, Philippe Ballardformer LCI journalist, was comfortably re-elected in the first round with 53.2% of the votes. Julien Odoulregional councilor of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and party spokesperson, narrowly passed in the 3rd constituency of Yonne with 50.44% of the vote.
Further south, five candidates were elected in the first round in the Var department alone, the Mediterranean region remaining a strong base for the RN. Among them, Laura Lavalettea regular on television sets, with 50.8% of the votes in the 2nd constituency. In Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a land rather acquired to the left, Edwige Diaz, the vice-president of the RN, is an exception: 53.33% of voters supported her re-election in the 11th constituency of Gironde.
A red and pink wave in the Paris region
The New Popular Front (NFP) brought together 27.9% of voters who cast their ballots on Sunday. As a whole, the left bloc directly elected 31 deputies. For the most part, these are candidates from La France insoumise who already sat under the previous legislature. It is in the Paris region and in the east of the capital that we find the greatest number of winners.
Among them, many porches of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, like Paul Vannierone of the negotiators of the NFP agreement (56.01% in the 5th constituency of Val-d’Oise), Eric Coquerelformer vice-president of the Finance Commission, which brings together 65.28% of voters in his first constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, or even Sophia Chikirou, former communications director for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the 6th district of Paris (58.19%). But also Mathilde Panotformer president of the group in the National Assembly (59.27% in the 10th constituency of Val-de-Marne) and Clemence Guetteco-president of the think tank La Boétie, in the 2nd constituency of Val-de-Marne (55%).
The former journalist and anti-speciesist activist Aymeric Caronlabeled LFI, also regains its seat in the first round in the 18e Parisian constituency (50.38%).
On the socialist side, let us point out the renewal ofOlivier Faurethe first secretary of the PS, elected since 2012 in the 11th constituency of Seine-et-Marne (53.42%). In Paris, Emmanuel GrégoireAnne Hidalgo’s first deputy, snatched the 7th constituency from Clément Beaune, the former Minister of Transport, with 50.87% of the vote. The communist Elsa Faucillon is very successful in Hauts-de-Seine (1st constituency) with 64.83% of the votes. She has been elected there since 2017.
Clémentine Autain, one of the rebellious personalities to have openly criticized the line defended by Jean-Luc Mélenchon in recent months, was comfortably re-elected on Sunday, in the 11th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis (62.65%). On the other hand, the dissident LFI candidates, notably those of Danielle Simonnet, Raquel Garrido, Alexis Corbière and Hendrik Davi in Marseille, will have to undergo a second round to hope to recover their seats.
In Marseille, a Melenchonist core
In the Marseille city, stronghold of Jean-Luc Mélenchon between 2017 and 2022, two close to the tribune are elected in the first round: Manuel Bompardthe coordinator of La France insoumise (4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône) with 67.49% of the votes, and Sebastien Deloguwho was expelled from the National Assembly last May for waving a Palestinian flag in the chamber. The outgoing MP managed to convince 59.67% of voters (7th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône).
Three environmentalists in the capital
Among environmentalists, Eva Sas et Sandrine Rousseau regained their Parisian seat in the first round: in the 8th constituency for the first (50.73%) and in the 9th for the second (52.13%). Victory also for the former socialist Pouria Amirshahipassed to the greens, in the 5e constituency (54.24%) where he was already elected from 2012 to 2017.
Two deputies elected for the outgoing majority
Just like in 2022, the presidential majority sent only two elected officials to the Palais Bourbon this Sunday. This time it is the Renaissance Pierre Cazeneuve, in the 7th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine (53.2%), and Michael Seo for Wallis and Futuna (62.25%), also a member of the presidential party.
The Republicans also had a poor harvest: the former primary candidate, Philippe Juvinwon in the 3rd constituency of Hauts-de-Seine, with 52.09% of the vote. He is the only LR “historical channel” to have been elected in the first round. Among the sixty LR candidates who followed Éric Ciotti in his rallying to Marine Le Pen, only the lawyer Christelle D’Intorni was elected in the first round, in the 5th constituency of Alpes-Maritimes (50.35%).
Finally, let us point out the score ofEstelle Youssouffa in Mayotte (1st district). With 79.48% of the votes, the former journalist, who sat with the LIOT group under the previous legislature, becomes the best-elected personality in these anticipated legislative elections.
