The final stretch before the second round of the legislative elections. Who should you vote for? Who is running in your constituency? All the information thanks to our interactive map.
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The second round of early legislative elections is fast approaching. While many withdrawals have taken place in the name of a “republican front” to block the National Rally (RN), it will be necessary to vote a second time in 501 constituencies to elect the new deputies who will sit in the National Assembly. Indeed, the first round, last Sunday, allowed the direct election of 76 candidates. And it is sometimes difficult to know who to vote for, which party, or even which alliance. This is why we offer you some insight so that you have all the cards in hand before the second round of this election.
In addition, the high turnout in the vote led to a significant number of three-way races, i.e. elections between three candidates in the second round. There are now 409 duels, 90 three-way races and 2 four-way races for this second round. In total, no fewer than 221 withdrawals took place between the first and second rounds, including a majority from the ranks of the New Popular Front (over 130) and the presidential majority (over 80). Where did these withdrawals take place? Who are the candidates who remained? Check out the official list of candidates for the second round of the legislative elections in your constituency and in all the others using the map below:
Find your candidates for the 2nd round of the legislative elections: the map by constituency
Which candidates withdrew from the second round of the legislative elections?
Triangular races most often have the effect of facilitating the victory of the candidate who came in first in the first round of voting. In this case, many candidates from the National Rally were in a position to win after last Sunday’s vote. But several personalities and political parties have called for the withdrawal of their candidates who came in third place in each constituency to block the far right and avoid the dispersion of votes.
The member parties of the New Popular Front have opted for this strategy and announced the systematic withdrawal of their candidates who qualified in third place in a three-way race. 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 Le Pen party and its allies.
For example, Noé Gauchard (NFP) withdrew in Calvados in favor of Elisabeth Borne against an RN candidate. Same case for Leslie Mortreux in the North, who withdrew in favor of Gerald Darmanin. The duel will pit him against a National Rally candidate. “To block the far right”, Hella Kribi-Romdhane, who came in third place in the 5th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, also withdrew to leave the field open to Jérôme Guedj (PS).
While the left was clear about the withdrawal of its least well-placed candidates, the presidential majority was more vague with instructions that could differ depending on the personalities. Gabriel Attal, Prime Minister and leader of the presidential camp during this campaign, called for the withdrawal of all candidates who came third in favor of an opponent other than the RN, others balked or even refused to see their candidacies disappear to leave the way clear for La France Insoumise. About fifteen candidates from the presidential majority ultimately remained in the three-way and four-way races where the RN is likely to win.
Candidates to watch 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 are opposed. First, there are those invested by the New Popular Front: François Ruffin came 2nd behind the RN in his constituency (Somme), but also heavyweights like Manuel Bompard (Bouches-du-Rhône) or Clémentine Autain (Seine-Saint-Denis). Then there are those who, although rebels and/or outgoing deputies, were not invested by the Mélenchonist party, according to them because of the disagreements they expressed with the leader: Alexis Corbière (Seine-Saint-Denis), Danielle Simonnet (Paris), Frédéric Mathieu (Ille-et-Vilaine) and Hendrik Davi (Bouches-du-Rhône). LFI also decided to invest the NPA activist Philippe Poutou in Aude and the latter narrowly qualified.
On the socialist side, François Hollande is still a candidate in Corrèze. Another surprising candidacy: that of Emmanuel Macron’s former Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, invested by Place publique who came out on top in Yvelines. The latter had left the government following the vote on the immigration law.
►Candidates to follow for the ex-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? We must also keep an eye on former ministers like the former head of government Elisabeth Borne in Calvados or the former Minister of Health Olivier Véran. The parliamentary group will in any case be small: the vast majority of candidates who came in third withdrew where there was an RN risk.
►Candidates to follow on the right and the far right:
Within the far-right union, several candidates were elected in the first round, including several heavyweights. But there are still several candidates in the running, including Eric Ciotti. The contested president of the Republicans came out on top in his constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes, but faces a three-way race in which the majority candidate who came third refuses to withdraw. Among the rare outgoing LR deputies who followed Eric Ciotti in his alliance, there is Meyer Habib, in the 8th constituency of French people living outside France.
He is not part of the far-right union and even left Les Républicains because of the alliance concluded by Eric Ciotti, but he remains located on the right of the political spectrum: Aurélien Pradié. An independent candidate, he nevertheless came out on top in his constituency of Lot.