The suspense is finally over. The results of the second round of these legislative elections are finally known across France, with a notable surprise: the New Popular Front came out on top, with between 180 and 210 deputies, ahead of the Macronist bloc and the National Rally.
Among the headliners, François Hollande was re-elected quite widely in his stronghold of Tulle, in Corrèze. The former President of the Republic obtained 43.3% of the vote, against 31.4% for the RN candidate and 25.3% for the Republican candidate. Victory also, much narrower nevertheless, for François Ruffin. In the Somme, the former journalist would have obtained 51.9%, ahead of the National Rally candidate, who had a seven-point lead in the first round.
As for the right-wing figures, it’s been a clean sweep so far. In the 1st constituency of Haute-Loire, Laurent Wauquiez was elected with 60.7% of the vote against the RN candidate. Victory also went to the former leader of the LR deputies, Olivier Marleix, with 56.4% of the vote, also ahead of an RN candidate. The party’s former number 2, Aurélien Pradié, who had announced that he was leaving the party during this legislative campaign, will also return to the National Assembly, after his victory in a three-way race against an unsubmissive candidate and an RN candidate.
On the National Rally side, Marie-Caroline Le Pen, Marine Le Pen’s sister, is currently predicted to lose in Sarthe with 49.8% of the vote, against an LFI candidate. Jean-Philipp Tanguy and Laurent Jacobelli, two figures from the party with the flame, were re-elected, respectively in Somme and Moselle.