Candidates for the 2024 legislative elections: who is running where?

The parties only had one week to nominate their candidates for the legislative elections in the 577 French constituencies. A test of speed for political groups which had to carry out negotiations with a view to forming an alliance before submitting their candidacies. All the candidates are now known, as the official campaign opens this Monday, June 17.

The left united in a New Popular Front presents only one candidate per constituency, with a few exceptions where a dissident candidate has decided to remain. On the right, the alliances were concluded more locally: the branch of LR which followed Eric Ciotti in his rapprochement with the party of Jordan Bardella presents 62 candidates supported by the RN, according to Eric Ciotti himself. The historic LR branch has concluded some local arrangements with the presidential majority, notably in Hauts-de-Seine. Finally, the presidential majority decided not to nominate candidates in the face of around twenty outgoing deputies, LR, socialists or the LIOT group. Find the list of all candidates as soon as it is published on the website of the Ministry of the Interior.

On the left, the New Popular Front presents a single candidate per constituency

A few hours after the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, Europe Ecologie Les Verts, La France insoumise, Place publique and the environmentalist pole came together to build an alliance. In a few days, the left-wing parties distributed the constituencies in such a way as to present single candidates: 229 for La France insoumise, 175 for the Socialist Party/Place publique, 92 for the ecologists and their allies, 50 for the communists.

On the quota of La France insoumise, Adrien Quatennens finally announced that he was abandoning his candidacy in the North. LFI invested in his place Aurélien Le Coq, national co-host of Jeunes insoumis. Furthermore, the non-reinvestment of several deputies caused controversy: Alexis Corbière (Seine-Saint-Denis), Raquel Garrido (Seine-et-Marne), Danielle Simonnet (Paris), Frédéric Mathieu (Ille-et-Vilaine) and Hendrik Davi (Bouches-du-Rhône). On the other hand, the deputy for Somme François Ruffin is a candidate for re-election, as is the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Clémentine Autain. LFI has also decided to invest NPA activist Philippe Poutou in the 1st constituency of Aude.

On the socialist side, the candidacy of François Hollande caused a reaction: the former President of the Republic was invested in the 1st constituency of Corrèze, his stronghold. Another surprising candidacy: the former Minister of Health ofEmmanuel Macron, Aurélien Rousseau, was invested by Place publique in the 7th constituency of Yvelines. The latter left the government following the vote on the immigration law. On the communist side, the young Léon Deffontaines, head of the list defeated in the European elections, is a candidate in the 3rd constituency of the Somme. The boss of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, is a candidate for re-election in the North. On the EELV side, the party’s national secretary, Marine Tondelier, is running as Samira Laal’s substitute in the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais.

The National Rally supports Eric Ciotti and some LR

Jordan Bardella’s party reinvested its outgoing deputies: Marine Le Pen in Pas-de-Calais (11th), Jean-Pihlippe Tanguy in the Somme (4th) and Sébastien Chenu in the Nord (19th). The National Rally also concluded an alliance with a minority branch of LR which followed its president Eric Ciotti: the deputy for the 1st constituency of Alpes-Maritimes will therefore not have an RN candidate facing him. He was followed in his alliance by another deputy from the department, Christelle d’Intorni, as well as by the president of the Young Republicans, Guilhem Carayon, who is running in Tarn. The outgoing deputy Meyer Habib, in the 8th constituency of French people established outside France, is also following the movement. Also note the candidacy of several CNews columnists under this double nomination: Guillaume Bigot, Sébastien Laye, Philippe Fontana and Charles Prats. A former Macronist MP, Typhanie Degois, also joined the alliance and is running in Savoie.

The majority of outgoing LR deputies, however, refused the alliance with the RN: the historic branch of the party announced early this Monday that it had invested “nearly 400 candidates in 93 departments and in the constituencies of French people abroad”. The general secretary of the party is naturally running for re-election in Doubs, while the outgoing boss of LR deputies Olivier Marleix is ​​representing himself in the 2nd constituency of Eure-et-Loir.

The presidential majority does not nominate candidates in the face of certain outgoing deputies

Renaissance, Horizons and the MoDem unsurprisingly reinvest most of their outgoing deputies. But in accordance with announcements made by the executive, the presidential majority does not present candidates against certain outgoing deputies from other camps, deemed “constructive” or in the “Republican arc”. This is the case for around twenty deputies from LR, Liot or the PS. Thus, no “Together for the Republic” candidate was nominated against François Hollande in Corrèze. In addition, some agreements have been reached with LR at the local level: in Hauts-de-Seine, the right and the Macronists present unique candidates in each constituency. Similar agreements in Loire-Atlantique and Marseille for example.

Furthermore, several members and former members of the government are candidates in these legislative elections: Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is running in the 10th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine, his predecessor Elisabeth Borne in the 6th of Calvados. Gérald Darmanin candidate in the 10th of the North, Olivier Véran in the 1st of Isère, Stéphane Séjourné in the 9th of Paris. On the other hand, the former Minister of Solidarity Damien Abad, indicted for attempted rape in May, did not receive the nomination of the presidential majority to be a candidate for his re-election in Ain.