Following the first round of the 2024 legislative elections, several candidates are in the running to obtain a seat in the National Assembly. Out of the four constituencies of Vienne, ten candidates are still in the running.
Will the National Rally obtain an absolute majority? Will the New Popular Front succeed in overtaking Marine Le Pen’s party in terms of the number of seats? Is cohabitation inevitable? All these questions may find their answers on July 7, at the end of the second round of these early legislative elections.
In the first round of these elections, the turnout in Vienne was 69.63%. This is a record since 1997 (69.96%).
Find out who the candidates are in your constituency in the Vienne department for the second round of these legislative elections.
1st constituency: Lisa Belluco facing two candidates
Mirebeau, Neuville-de-Poitou, Poitiers I, Poitiers II, Poitiers VII, Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux, Saint-Julien-l’Ars
⇒ Lisa Belluco, The Ecologists – New Popular Front (with 33.14% of votes cast au 1ᵉʳ tour)
Outgoing MP Lisa Belluco is leading in her constituency. With Séverine Saint-Pé (Horizons) remaining in the second round, she seems the favourite to succeed herself in this second round.
⇒ Emmanuelle Darles, National Rally (with 28.93% of the votes cast au 1ᵉʳ tour)
Emmanuelle Darles, a teacher and lecturer at the XLIM research institute based in Limoges, finished second in this second round. According to Press Centershe is part of the network that worked for the controversial microbiologist Didier Raoult.
⇒ Severine Saint-Pé, LR, UDI, Horizons (with 28.85% of the votes cast au 1ᵉʳ tour)
Despite coming third in the first round, the mayor of the commune of Neuville-du-Poitou and vice-president of the Vienne department filed her candidacy for the second round on Monday, July 1. Only 43 votes separated her from the National Rally candidate.
2nd constituency: Sacha Houlié favorite
Poitiers III, Poitiers IV, Poitiers V, Poitiers VI, La Villedieu-du-Clain, Vivonne, Vouillé
⇒ Sacha Houlie, Together (with 33.21% of the votes cast au 1ᵉʳ tour)
Co-founder of the movement Les Jeunes avec Macron in 2015, Sacha Houlié is an important figure in the presidential camp. President of the Law Commission of the National Assembly until the announcement of its dissolution, he is the only candidate with the Ensemble label to have finished first in the first round in the former Poitou-Charentes region. He benefits from the support of Aurélien Bourdier (PS), eliminated in this first round.
⇒ Valerie Soumaille, LFI – New Popular Front (with 28.63% of the votes cast au 1ᵉʳ tour)
Historically on the left, theCandidates Lisa Belluco and Valérie Soumaille, both affiliated with the New Popular Front, won almost all the polling stations in Poitiers. A PE teacher and union activist, she was already a candidate in the 2022 legislative elections.
⇒ Estelle Chevallier, National Rally (with 24.42% of the votes cast au 1ᵉʳ tour)
At just 20 years old, Estelle Chevallier is one of the youngest candidates in France for these legislative elections. A student at the University of Poitiers and a member of the UNI union, she qualified for the second round in the second constituency of Vienne.
Sacha Houlié, Valérie Soumaille or Estelle Chevallier: voters will have to make a choice for the second round.
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3rd constituency: RN in the lead
Availles-Limouzine, Charroux, Chauvigny, Civray, Couhé, Gençay, L’Isle-Jourdain, Lusignan, Lussac-les-Châteaux, Montmorillon, Saint-Savin, La Trimouille, Vouneuil-sur-Vienne, town from La Puye
⇒ Eric Soulat, National Rally (with 40.82% of the votes cast au 1ᵉʳ tour)
Regional councilor in the National Rally group and worker-cook at the Republican Security Company in Poitiers. Éric Soulat dominates the vote in this first round. He hopes to achieve a better result than in 2022, when he obtained 45.86% of the vote.
⇒ Pascal Lecamp, MoDem (with 30.18% of the votes cast au 1ᵉʳ tour)
Outgoing MP Pascal Lecamp finished second in this first round. After the announcement of the withdrawal of the mayor of Queaux Gisèle Jean, invested by the New Popular Front, to block the extreme right, he hopes to recover as many votes as possible from his supporters to regain his seat in the National Assembly.
4th constituency: outgoing MP Turquois in difficulty
Châtellerault North, Châtellerault West, Châtellerault South, Dangé-Saint-Romain, Lencloître, Loudun, Moncontour, Monts-sur-Guesnes, Pleumartin (less the commune of La Puye), Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, Les Trois-Moutiers
⇒ Hager Jacquemin, National Rally (41% of votes cast) au 1ᵉʳ tour)
Parliamentary attaché to the elected representative of the Gironde National Rally Edwige Diaz, Hager Jacquemin finished first in the first round in the fourth constituency of Vienne. She had a lead of more than 4,000 votes over her direct competitor Nicolas Turquois.
⇒ Nicolas Turquois, MoDem (32.1% of votes cast au 1ᵉʳ tour)
He also hopes to win back as many voters and supporters of Yves Trousselle (Place Publique – New Popular Front) as possible to return to the Palais Bourbon. Nicolas Turquois, the outgoing MP in this constituency, finished second in this first round and intends to reverse the trend.
