2024 Legislative Elections. 4th constituency of Haute-Garonne: François Piquemal re-elected in the first round in Toulouse

In the 4th constituency of Haute-Garonne (the only one entirely in Toulouse, which goes from Capitole to Mirail, via Saint-Cyprien), where seven candidates were in the running (including one who withdrew from the race just before the vote). François Piquemal was re-elected in the first round of the early legislative elections, this Sunday, June 30, 2024. Receiving 53.39% of the votes, while participation amounts to 70.25% in this territory, the elected representative of France Unbowedinvested by the New Popular Front, is the only deputy for Haute-Garonne to be re-elected this evening.

Here are the final results in the 4th constituency of Haute-Garonne (entirely in Toulouse, southwest of the city):

• François Piquemal (LFI, New Popular Front): 53.39% (re-elected)
• Margaux Pech (Renaissance, presidential majority): 26.92%
• Audrey Larregle (National gathering): 15.66%
• Arthur Cottrel (Reconquest): 1.96%
• Jacem Delmas (Bastir Occitanie) : 1.53%
• Patrick Marcireau (Workers’ struggle): 0.57%
• Paul Cazals (NPA-Revolutionaries): 0.00%

The NPA-Revolutionaries candidate Paul Cazals having submitted and then withdrawn his candidacy, he did not collect no voice.

Who is François Piquemal?

The LFI-Nupes deputy took over from Macronist Mickaël Nogal in 2022 in the only entirely Toulouse constituency, which covers the south-west of Toulouse. He has since established himself as one of the main faces of the left in the Pink City.

While he had garnered 46.54% of the votes in the first round in 2022, François Piquemal has this time crossed the threshold.

An MP keen on housing (and space)

François Piquemal, who was history-geography teacher and of lettres at the Mirail vocational high school, was also once a figure in the Right to Housing association in Toulouse. Elected in 2020 to the Capitol on the Citizen Archipelago list, he resigned from the Toulouse municipal council in November 2022, after his accession to the Palais Bourbon.

In the Assembly, for two years, MP Piquemal was involved in several sectors of activity: accommodationunsurprisingly, but also on other, more unexpected terrains, such as that of spatial. The parliamentarian was in fact a member of the Defense committee, as well as the local authorities delegation.

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