Elisabeth Borne, candidate in the 6th constituency of Calvados, was re-elected this Sunday. What exact result did the former Prime Minister obtain?
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21:58 – Elisabeth Borne re-elected, the final results are in
Elisabeth Borne has indeed been re-elected as MP for the 6th constituency of Calvados, we learned this Sunday, July 7, following the second round of the early legislative elections of 2024. According to the final results published by the Ministry of the Interior, the former Prime Minister obtained 56.36% of the vote, ahead of the National Rally candidate Nicolas Calbrix, who won 43.64% of the vote.
21:01 – Borne towards a comfortable re-election
Elisabeth Borne is getting closer to a new mandate as a member of parliament. Candidate in the 6th constituency of Calvados, the former Prime Minister is clearly ahead in the partial results communicated by the Ministry of the Interior. After 96.91% of ballots have been counted, Elisabeth Borne, candidate for Ensemble, is credited with 55.76% of the vote against 44.24% for the RN candidate Nicolas Calbrix.
20:22 – Elisabeth Borne on the verge of being re-elected
According to incomplete results calculated on the basis of 72.89% of registered voters received, the former Prime Minister is given the victory in her duel with the RN with 56.37% of the votes cast. At this time, she has a 6,000 vote lead over Nicolas Calbrix. Elisabeth Borne is therefore in a good position to be re-elected.
20:02 – 150 to 180 seats for Ensemble.
Together, the coalition which brings together Renaissance (LREM), MoDem, Horizons and other allies of Macronie, is given 150 to 180 seats according to the first projections of results given by the Ifop institute.
19:32 –
Elisabeth Borne denounces the RN’s “magic wands”
During the debate between Nicolas Calbrix and Elisabeth Borne on France 3 Normandie and France Bleu, the question of taxes was raised.
The RN candidate defended his party’s program: “We have priorities for purchasing power. The first thing is the reduction of VAT on energy products, for travel, for heating. We are already being taxed. It’s been 7 years since this government imposed tax justice. We will not impose additional taxes on the working classes and the middle classes.” Elisabeth Borne did not hesitate to retort, denouncing totally unrealistic projections: “It’s quite easy, Mr. Calbrix, to forget to say that in recent years, there have been 60 billion in tax cuts and to tell us that your 130 billion in spending does not translate into tax increases. We know that the RN has a lot of magic wands, that it tends to sell dreams that end in nightmares. But how do you finance 130 billion in additional spending without new taxes?” Without directly answering the question, the RN candidate simply declared: “We will see in what situation you leave the country. I have no lessons in good management to receive from you.”
18:18 – What is special about Elisabeth Borne’s constituency?
The sixth constituency of Calvados is a very stretched territory with the countryside to the south, classified as a rural revitalization zone and to the north a peri-urban area at the gates of Caen. It extends over more than 90 kilometers. The constituency also includes the bocage virois and its capital, the Vire Normandie sub-prefecture as well as the town of Condé sur Noireau, a stronghold of industry.
17:22 – Elisabeth Borne defends her record at Matignon
“I tried to do my best. Not everything is simple,” she admitted during her campaign, as reported by Franceinfo. She also tried to make people forget her role as “Madame 49.3”. She, in fact, used this article 23 times during her time at Matignon, notably to pass the very controversial pension reform. On this point, the former Prime Minister retorted: “We adopted 69 texts while I was Prime Minister and those that were adopted in 49.3 are only financial texts. That makes 63 texts on which I went to build majorities with people who do not think like us, and whose opinions we took into account.”
16:33 – The withdrawal of the NFP candidate congratulated by Borne but criticized by the RN
“I welcomed his decision, which is republican,” said Elisabeth Borne after the announcement of Noé Gauchard’s withdrawal so as not to disperse the votes and to block the RN. On the other hand, Nicolas Calbrix found this decision “hypocritical.” “He had extremely harsh words against Madame Borne, who was the enemy to be brought down, who had to be sent into retirement, removed, and to see that five minutes after the results, he called for a vote for her, it was extremely surprising,” he reacted to the microphone of BFMTV.
15:47 – Elisabeth Borne wants an enlarged Assembly following the vote
At the end of the second round of the legislative elections, if the RN does not obtain an absolute majority, “we will have to govern with an assembly in which we will bring together as broadly as possible, find majorities on subjects that can be shared by the entire republican arc”, affirmed Elisabeth Borne on France Bleu Normandie on July 3. With the withdrawals, the objective was to “bring together voters who want to carry the values of the Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity, secularism”, she specified, recalling that the Macronist camp withdrew in “a little over 80 constituencies” and had not presented candidates in “65” others.
14:55 – Elisabeth Borne attacks her opponent
During the debate between the two rounds organized by France 3 Normandie and France Bleu, the former Prime Minister attacked Nicolas Calbrix, whom she considers to have been parachuted into her constituency. “I say to all the voters in the constituency who do not wish to be represented by a National Rally MP who does not live in the constituency, who rarely comes and who clearly has no interest in the issues of the constituency, that we can all come together,” she declared. The latter defended himself by recalling that he had “grown up in Normandy” and had been “head of the list in the 2015 regional elections.”
This Sunday, as the French went to the polls for the second time, Elisabeth Borne was finally re-elected in the 6th constituency of Calvados. In the first round, she was beaten by the RN candidate, Nicolas Calbrix, with 36.26% against 28.93% for the former Prime Minister who was running under the banner of the presidential majority. Following the withdrawal of the NFP candidate, Noé Gauchard, Elisabeth Borne finally won the duel with 56.36% of the votes in the second round, while her RN opponent obtained 43.64% of the votes.
She seems to have benefited from a transfer of votes from a large part of the left-wing electorate. Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, had declared on BFMTV following the withdrawal of the NFP candidate: “I assume that we will save Mrs. Borne”, while Noé Gauchard assured that this choice was “in no way a support for Mrs. Borne, nor for the policy of Emmanuel Macron”. The former head of government had then called on “all voters who recognize themselves in the values of the Republic, who want answers, concrete, practical, rapid solutions” to vote for her, denouncing “the unrealistic and dangerous promises” of her opponent.
Furthermore, the former Prime Minister had presented some points of her program in the event of re-election. Actu.frshe looked back on her first two years of action in the constituency. “In two years, we have taken concrete action to respond to the concerns of residents: in terms of training young people and in response to the recruitment needs of businesses, thanks to the creation of the ‘Fil en Normandie’ production school in Condé-en-Normandie; for serving the territory, with 10 million euros for work to improve the Paris-Granville line; for access to care in medical deserts by initiating the medicobus project or for security in our territory by installing a mobile gendarmerie brigade based in Bény-Bocage, which covers Noues de Sienne and Souleuvre en Bocage”, she explained. She thus assured that she would continue to act for “more quality and local public services, to support our local economy, for our agriculture, for equal opportunities, for our young people as well as for our elders. And finally, for our security”.
What result in the second round of the legislative elections for Elisabeth Borne?
This Sunday, July 7, Elisabeth Borne was re-elected as MP for the 6th constituency of Calvados with 56.36% of the vote against RN candidate Nicolas Calbrix, who won 43.64% of the vote. Although this is not Elisabeth Borne’s first attempt, she was starting in a more unfavorable position than two years ago. During the 2022 legislative elections, she had totaled 34.3% in the first round and was in the lead. During the second round, she won with 52.46% of the votes cast against Nupes candidate Noé Gauchard. That said, this election was marked by a significant abstention rate. For this second round in 2024, she is completely changing her electoral context. She is running with her background as a former head of government. Will Elisabeth Borne be subject to a sanction vote, particularly following her involvement in the pension reform and her countless appeals to Article 49.3?
She was also facing a completely different opponent. Since the European elections, the RN has made a breakthrough in the electoral stronghold of the MP. Jordan Bardella’s list came out on top with 34% of the votes in the constituency, far ahead of the presidential majority list (19.87%). A context that therefore seems to have benefited Nicolas Calbrix, with the RN having doubled its number of votes between 2022 and 2024 in the territory. His 39-year-old opponent, originally from Rouen, had declared for Actu.fr before the first round that Elisabeth Borne “is the symbol of Macronie” and that “these elections will punish Mrs. Borne and two years of brutality.”