The results of the first round of legislative elections have also been announced in the overseas territories.
The left obtained good results in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana, while the RN made a significant push in Réunion.
Discover the scores obtained in the different overseas departments and regions.
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2024 legislative elections
Confirmations and breakthroughs. The first round of the legislative elections delivered its verdict in the overseas territories this Sunday, following the counting. Results which fluctuated a lot depending on the areas, with good results for the main left-wing deputies in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana, while the RN made a significant push in Reunion. Overview of the different results of the day.
Guadeloupe
The outgoing deputies came out on top in the four Guadeloupe constituencies, but the far right made a breakthrough with two candidates qualified for the second round. The incumbent Olivier Serva (various left) came out on top in the constituency of Pointe-à-Pitre against the LFI candidate Chantal Lérus. Rody Tolassy (RN), qualified for the second round on the island in the 3rd constituency (25.90%), far behind the deputy Liot Max Mathiasin (36.21%). In the other two constituencies, the outgoing deputies of the New Popular Front, Elie Califer and Christian Baptiste, are well ahead.
Martinique
A similar scenario in Martinique, with the New Popular Front in the lead in the island’s four constituencies. Incumbents Jiovanny William, Marcellin Nadeau and Johnny Hajjar all came in first place. In the 4th constituency, Jean-Philippe Nilor, another left-wing candidate, is also in the lead with 63.18% of the vote. However, having failed to cross the 25% mark for registered voters, he will be forced into a second round against RN candidate Grégory Roy-Larentry, a first on this Caribbean island. His score (9.88% of the votes cast) leaves little doubt about the outcome of the vote.
The meeting
The National Rally (RN) achieved historic progress on the Indian Ocean island by qualifying its candidates, most of whom are little-known, for the second round in all seven constituencies. In the 3rd, Joseph Rivière (RN) even came out on top with 30.10% of the vote ahead of the New Popular Front candidate Alexis Chaussalet (24.7%) and the outgoing Liot MP Nathalie Bassire (23.2%). In the other six constituencies, the outgoing MPs, all from the left, came in first place. During the European elections on June 9, the RN list led by Jordan Bardella came out on top in 21 of the 24 communes of Réunion.
Guyana
The two outgoing deputies invested by the New Popular Front in the two constituencies of Guyana, Jean-Victor Castor and Davy Rimane, come well ahead with respectively 62.78% and 60.21% of the votes. Failing to have reached 25% of those registered to win on Sunday, they will be forced into a second round. In the 1st constituency, Mr. Castor, supported by the left, will be opposed to various right-wing candidate Boris Chong Sit (16.11%). In the second, Mr. Rimane will be alone in the race after the withdrawal of a candidate without a label, Sophie Charles (25.49%).
Mayotte
A great performance by the outgoing MP Liot Estelle Youssouffa, who was re-elected without a fight in the first round by collecting 79.48% of the votes in the 1st constituency. In the other constituency, Mansour Kamardine (LR), already elected three times to the National Assembly, only collected 27.8% of the votes. He will face a difficult duel against the RN candidate Anchya Bamana (35.42%) in the second round.
New Caledonia
In a vote marked by a rebound in participation in the archipelago, the loyalist MP Nicolas Metzdorf, rapporteur of the bill on the thawing of the electoral body which provoked the anger of the separatists during the month of May, came out on top in the 1st constituency (39.81%). He will face in the second round the separatist Omayra Naisseline, member of the Caledonian Union (36.34%). In the other constituency, the separatist candidate Emmanuel Tjibaou, one of the sons of the Kanak leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou, assassinated in 1989, came out on top with 44.06% of the vote. He will face in the second round the non-separatist LR Alcide Ponga (36.18%).
French Polynesia
Small upheaval in French Polynesia: the autonomist candidates seem to have taken the advantage over the separatists, unlike the 2022 election. One of them, the various right-wing Moerani Frébault was elected in the first round in the 1st constituency with 54% of the votes, ahead of outgoing independence MP Tematai Le Gayic (35%). Same scenario in the 2nd constituency, with the autonomist Nicole Sanquer (49%), in the lead ahead of the outgoing Steve Chailloux (42.1%). The outgoing independentist Mereana Reid Arbelot saved the honor in the 3rd by narrowly beating, with 42.7% of the votes, the wife of former president Gaston Flosse, Pascale Haiti-Flosse (41%), in a duel which promises to be tight in the second round.
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Wallis and Futuna, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, St Martin and St Barthélemy
In the single constituency of Wallis and Futuna, the outgoing deputy of the presidential camp, Mikaele Seo, was re-elected in the first round with 62.2% of the vote. In Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, the outgoing Frantz Gumbs (centrist) is also in a very good position after the first round with 41.1% of the vote, ahead of the various right-wing Alexandra Questel (19.9%). Finally, further north, in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the deputy Stéphane Lenormand (various right, 43%) will face the socialist Frédéric Beaumont (16.8%) in the second round.
