The second round of the partial legislative election for the Ardennes department took place this Sunday, December 8, 2024. In the running: Jordan Duflot (RN, ex-FN), winner of the first round on December 1, against Lionel Vuibert (SE but close of Renaissance, ex-LREM). Lionel Vuibert won with 50.89% of the votes. Consequence: the RN loses a seat in the national assembly.
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This Sunday, December 8, 2024, the second round of the partial legislative election in the Ardennes department concluded at 6:00 p.m. The results came in shortly after 8:00 p.m. A result with national resonance since the RN loses a seat in the national assembly.
Lionel Vuibert (SE but close to Agir and the Renaissance coalition, ex-LREM) was elected deputy for the first constituency of the Ardennes, with 50.89% of the votes. Coming in second position is Jordan Duflot (RN, ex-FN) with 49.11%.
The participation rose to 30.86%. There are only 372 votes to separate the competitors in this very close election: former MP Lionel Vuibert, beaten in July, was in a difficult situation. Nearly a thousand votes are blank or invalid (see the figures for the second round in the infographic below).
Lionel Vuibert won in most of the polling stations in Charleville-Mézières and Rethel (for this town, much more than in July). Jordan Duflot won two of the three polling stations in Villers-Semeuse, but in terms of number of votes, it was still Lionel Vuibert who won (by around 30 votes).
This Sunday, December 8, Romain Nowicki and Ophélie Perroux, journalists from France 3 Champagne-Ardenne, were at the prefecture of Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes). Who were able to approach the loser, Jordan Duflot.
He attributes his defeat to the fact that “These are partial legislative elections. The voters perhaps felt less concerned. In any case, we carried out field work, in rural areas as well as in the big cities. Our program was very clear, on the concerns of the daily life of our voters: purchasing power, insecurity But perhaps we were not explicit enough.
-The results, municipality by municipality, fall little by little in the Ardennes prefecture, on Sunday December 8, 2024.
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© Ophélie Perroux, France Télévisions
As for Lionel Vuibert, who thinks he “more established”he would like to thank the people who wanted to again “trust him”this allegedly “without any support from a political party”. He declared regarding the close score (beaten by 200 votes in July, elected by just under 400 votes this time) that “It's a difficult constituency to win, with 187 municipalities and 104,000 inhabitants. Today, the National Rally has very significant scores there. I believe that what pays off for me is the work on the ground and a campaign led vigorously by nearly 250 activists who took to the streets to support me.” He also states “have seen little” son concurrent “arrived from nowhere on the Ardennes political scene”.
He has a thought for his deputy, Armelle Lequeux, who is Boris Ravignon's first deputy at Charleville town hall, and for the national and local elected officials who surround him. “Without having a determined and efficient team around you, you cannot succeed in a campaign of this magnitude.” He also thinks that the RN's vote on the motion of censure which brought down the Barnier government could have influenced the vote (see Lionel Vuibert's “voted” tweet below)…
After his (new) induction into the National Assembly “next week”Mr. Vuibert will re-enter the hemicycle and join one of the standing committees of the parliamentary institution. The department can count on an elected official with experience and experience (he had crushed his two frontist opponents on this subject): departmental councilor, former mayor of Faissault. His father was a deputy and mayor of Faissault, his mother was also its mayor. He is therefore known in the region, and close to many elected officials, who also congratulated him on Twitter.
Six months after the legislative elections, it was necessary to vote again in the first constituency of the Ardennes. In question, the resignation (officially for health reasons) of Flavien Termet (RN, ex-FN), the youngest member of the National Assembly.
The latter, during the July 2024 elections, managed to wrest his seat from the right-wing deputy (Agir) close to the (former) presidential majority, Lionel Vuibert (Renaissance coalition, ex-LREM). After the surprise resignation of Flavien Termet, a new election had to be called. His deputy, Michel Delsuc, could only replace him in the event of appointment to the government (or death), and did not run for this by-election.
For this high-stakes election, the far-right party sent Jordan Duflot (RN, ex-FN), born in the Ardennes (unlike Flavien Termet, of Breton origin). Lionel Vuibert (SE, that is to say without label), also from Ardennes by birth and a well-established elected official, is trying to display a relative distance from the presidential party to increase his chances of being elected, this time -here (see the figures from the first round on the infographic below).
Which will not prevent Lionel Vuibert from continuing to sit with the center-right bloc if he is elected. He described his opponent as “ghost candidate”which nevertheless received a very high-profile visit in the person of Jordan Bardella, president of the far-right party.
Nine other people applied. During the first round, Jordan Duflot came first, with 39.12% of the votes. He is followed by Lionel Vuibert with 25.42%. Abstention reached a very high proportion, namely 69%.
