NFP in the lead, RN candidates qualified: the verdict of the first round of legislative elections in Seine-Saint-Denis

In Seine-Saint-Denis, the fate of half of the constituencies was already sealed after the first round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 30, 2024. The 6 concerned went to candidates from the New Popular Front (NFP)thus confirming the results of the European elections, during which La France insoumise (LFI) had achieved its best results on a national scale in the department, and those of the presidential elections, where Jean-Luc Mélenchon, LFI candidate, came out on top in 37 of the 40 communes, during the first round.

In three constituencies However, the National Rally (RN) place of candidates in the second round.

Two additional seats promised to the left

During the 2022 legislative elections, the left-wing alliance, Nupes, had won all 12 seats of the department. Two years later, six outgoing deputies were re-elected in the first round: Éric Coquerel (LFI) in the 1st king with 65.28%, Stéphane Peu (PCF) in the 2e with 71.80%, Bastien Lachaud (LFI) in the 6e with 71.68%, Aurélie Trouvé (LFI) in the 9e with 63.19%, Nadège Abomangoli (LFI) in the 10th with 52.60% and Clémentine Autain (NFP) in the 11e with 62.65% of the votes.

In the 4th and 7th, NFP candidates will be opposed in the second round to a dissident rebel (Mohamed Awad for the 4th and Alexis Corbière for the 7th). The second also finished in the lead at the end of the first round with 40.19% of the votes. And some, like Clémentine Autain, hope to see the second fade away in these cases.

“I am dismayed to have to take time to ask the LFI management not to not maintain its applications facing three of my “purged” comrades who came out on top: Danielle Simonnet, Hendrik Davi and Alexis Corbière, who obtained scores higher than the official LFI candidacies – and I congratulate them! I understand that Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the LFI leadership are bitter about their failure but I call for responsibility. Fratricidal wars “must stop,” wrote the MP on X.

Either way, those two seats will go to the left.

A three-way race and three RN candidates in the second round

Also a dissident, the outgoing deputy Raquel Garrido, who came third in the first round (23.65%), should have difficulty keeping her seat in the 5th, following a triangular where she will be up against the UDI candidate, Aude Lagarde (24.56), and especially the LFI candidate Aly Diaoura (33,10 %). On TF1she also assured that she was “ready” to withdraw and called on the LFI supporters who came second behind her “comrades” to do the same: “logic would dictate that the second on the left should withdraw (…) I am ready for that.”

Finally, in the 3rd, 8th and 12th constituencies, the NFP candidate will face an RN candidate, even if the balance of power seems largely in favour of the left, there too. In the 3rd, the outgoing MP Thomas Portes (LFI) won 41.68% votes against 21.28% for Denis Crétin-Gielly (RN).

In the 8th, 25.44 points separate the outgoing PS MP Fatiha Keloua Hachi (49.30) and her RN rival Sébastien Jolivet (23.86). While in the 12th, Jérôme Legavre has a good chance of being re-elected in the second round, with 45.11% of the vote against 26.04 for the RN candidate, Jean-François Perier.

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