After the first round of the legislative elections, who are the candidates still in the running? Will they face one or more opponents? Discover the parties still in the race in each constituency for the second round.
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The first round of the legislative elections has passed and has sorted out the candidates. At the national level, the National Rally (RN) came out on top with 33.15% of the vote against 28.14% of the vote for the New Popular Front (NFP) and 20.76% for the presidential majority, which came in third place according to the final results. But how do these figures translate to the 577 constituencies?
First by the election in the first round of 75 candidates, including 39 from the RN or allied forces and 32 from the Union of the Left. Only two candidates from the presidential majority were elected by an absolute majority in the first round.
In all other constituencies, candidates will have to face the polls again on July 7 and face one to several opponents. The high participation in the vote led to a significant number of triangulars, that is to say elections between three candidates in the 2nd round: 306 exactly with 244 who will oppose the RN, the NFP and the majority, 46 between the RN, the NFP and LR and 16 others with different configurations. The number of triangulars may, however, be reduced if the candidates who came in third place withdraw. They have until Tuesday July 2 to decide.
The second round of the legislative elections will be played out in a duel in 190 constituencies: the RN and the NFP will face each other in 67 of them and the RN will face the majority in 32 others. Note that five constituencies will witness quadrangular contests for the second round.
Find your candidates for the 2nd round of the legislative elections: the map by constituency
After the first round of the legislative elections, it is easier to understand the trends in each constituency and to know which ones lean to the right or the left. But given the possible transfer of votes, the candidates who came out on top on the evening of June 30 will not necessarily be elected.
Which candidates can withdraw in the second round of the legislative elections?
The triangulars most often have the effect of facilitating the victory of the candidate who came first during the first round of voting. In this case, many National Rally candidates would be able to win. Unless a republican front is formed and the political parties call for a withdrawal of their candidates who came in third place to block the far right, knowing that they themselves have little chance of winning.
The member parties of the New Popular Front opted for this strategy and announced the systematic withdrawal of their candidates having qualified in third place in a triangular. Deprived of a candidate, the parties then plan to vote for the candidate facing the RN, not out of support but above all to prevent a victory for the RN and its allies.
If the left has been clear about the withdrawal of its least well-placed candidates, the presidential majority is more vague with instructions that differ depending on the personalities. If Gabriel Attal, Prime Minister and leader of the presidential camp during this campaign, calls for the withdrawal of all the candidates who came third in favor of an opponent other than the RN, others refuse to see their candidates disappear if it is to leave the way clear for La France insoumise.
Candidates to follow for each party
Each party has presented hundreds of candidates in the legislative elections, but some are to be followed more closely in their constituency because of the electoral stakes, the possible political swings expected or the government functions occupied by the candidates.
► Candidates to follow on the left:
Among the rebels, two camps oppose each other. First there are those invested by the New Popular Front: François Ruffin who came 2nd behind the RN in his constituency (Somme), but also the heavyweights like Manuel Bompard (Bouches-du-Rhône) or Clémentine Autain (Seine-Saint -Denis). Then there are those who, although rebellious and/or outgoing deputies, were not invested by the Mélenchonist party, due according to them to the disagreements they expressed with the leader: Alexis Corbière (Seine-Saint-Denis) , Raquel Garrido (Seine-et-Marne), Danielle Simonnet (Paris), Frédéric Mathieu (Ille-et-Vilaine) and Hendrik Davi (Bouches-du-Rhône). LFI also decided to invest NPA activist Philippe Poutou in Aude and the latter narrowly qualified.
On the socialist side, François Hollande is still a candidate in Corrèze, but is not sure of being elected although he came in first in the first round. Another surprising candidacy: that of Emmanuel Macron’s former Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, invested by Place publique who came first in Yvelines. The latter left the government following the vote on the immigration law.
►The candidates to follow for the majority:
While 24 ministers are candidates in the legislative elections, none managed to get elected in the first round. Qualified for duels or three-way races in the second round, will those who came in first be elected like Gabriel Attal or Stéphane Séjourné in Hauts-de-Seine or Gérald Darmanin in the North? Will those who came in second be able to reverse the trend? And will those who finished third withdraw?
We must also monitor former ministers like the former head of government Elisabeth Borne in Calvados or the former Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
►Candidates to follow on the right and the far right:
Within the far-right union, several candidates were elected in the first round, notably several heavyweights. But there are still several candidates on the ballot, including Eric Ciotti. The contested president of the Republicans came first in his Alpes-Maritimes constituency, but faces a triangular in which the majority candidate who came third refuses to withdraw. Among the rare outgoing LR deputies who followed Eric Ciotti in his alliance, we include Meyer Habib, in the 8th constituency of French people established outside France.
He is not part of the far-right union and even left Les Républicains due to the alliance concluded by Eric Ciotti, but he remains located on the right of the political spectrum: Aurélien Pradié. Candidate without label, he nevertheless came first in his constituency of Lot.