• The united left (25% to 26.2%) and President Macron's camp (25% to 25.8%) arrive neck and neck in the first round of legislative elections on Sunday, against a backdrop of record abstention (52 .1% to 52.8%), thus opening the game of the second round in a week.

  • The first projections of the 577 seats give an advantage to the outgoing majority united under the label Ensemble!, with a range of 260 to 300 seats, ahead of the left (LFI, PCF, PS and EELV) united under the Nupes banner (150 to 208), according to the Harris Institute, and a range of 275 to 310 for Together!

    and 190 to 210 for Nupes, according to Ifop-Fiducial.

  • The National Rally candidates (18.5% to 19.8%) failed to capitalize on the momentum of Marine Le Pen in the presidential election, who had garnered more than 40% of the vote in the second round.

    Conversely, in the wake of the heavy fall of its presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse, LR (11.6% to 14%) should lose its place as the leading opposition group in the National Assembly.

The united left (25% to 26.2%) and President Macron's camp (25% to 25.8%) arrive neck and neck in the first round of legislative elections on Sunday, against a backdrop of record abstention (52 .1% to 52.8%).

These results do not settle two major questions: will the Head of State manage to retain his absolute majority in the National Assembly?

And will the left find sufficient reserves of votes to send, as it hopes, the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Matignon?

In the meantime, on June 19,

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summarizes this election night for you in four infographics.

La Nupes achieves a breakthrough and challenges the Macronists

The left-wing coalition led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon has made a spectacular breakthrough, allowing it to be on the same level as the Macronist camp and to hope to deprive Emmanuel Macron of an absolute majority.

Record abstention, which generally affects working-class neighborhoods and young people more (important pool of voters for the left), did not prevent the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) from transforming the promises of good polls.

The result of this Sunday evening thus appears to be a trompe-l'oeil: on the one hand, Emmanuel Macron is on the way to succeeding in his bet to renew a majority in the National Assembly, a first in fifteen years.

On the other hand, that LREM obtains an absolute majority has become illusory: the walkers will have to rely on the MoDem and the forces of Edouard Philippe to hope to reach 289 seats and avoid having to compromise with other groups to have the texts adopted. of the executive.

In 2017, LREM and Modem won more than 32% in the first round before obtaining nearly 350 deputies in the second.

The game is open for the second round

Thus, the left united under the Nupes banner succeeded in posing as a credible electoral alternative.

There is little hope of imposing a government of cohabitation on Emmanuel Macron, as the plural left achieved in 1997 with Lionel Jospin.

While Jean-Luc Mélenchon had urged the French to make these elections a "third round" of the presidential election, the left should still establish itself as the main opposition bloc at the Palais-Bourbon.

A form of tactical half-victory when on the other side of the hemicycle, the Republicans will count their survivors among the hundred outgoing, hoping to make the most of their local roots.

With tenuous voice reserves and a between-two rounds which promises to be tense, the game therefore promises to be open for the second round, Sunday June 12.

The Macron camp, united under the label Together!, however retains the advantage in the projections of the 577 seats of deputies, with a range of 260 to 300 seats, ahead of the left (LFI, PCF, PS and EELV) gathered under the Nupes banner (150 to 208), according to the Harris Institute, and a range of 275 to 310 for Together!

and 190 to 210 for Nupes, according to Ifop-Fiducial.

The tension in abstention

The key to the second round will once again lie in the participation, historically low this Sunday.

Since 1993, disinterest in these elections has steadily increased, a trend that accelerated with the introduction of the five-year term and the alignment of presidential and legislative elections in 2002.

However, the various parties involved have continued to send calls for mobilization and have heavily insisted on the issues, six weeks after seeing Emmanuel Macron obtain a second term at the Elysée.

For the head of state, who called on the French to give him "a strong and clear majority", it was a question of being able to have the many reforms promised in his program approved, starting with that of pensions. which is due to come into effect in one year.

A “phew” of relief for Borne

The outgoing majority gave a "phew" of relief when they discovered the score of the head of government, Elisabeth Borne, who came first in the sixth constituency of Calvados and is now a big favorite.

The same goes for Olivier Dussopt (Work) in Ardèche, Marc Fesneau (Agriculture) in Loir-et-Cher or Justine Benin (Sea) in Guadeloupe.

But the Minister of Ecological Transition, Amélie de Montchalin, is now in great difficulty in Essonne, ahead of ten points by Jérôme Guedj (Nupes).

Among the personalities of the macronie, the former ministers Christophe Castaner (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), Brigitte Klinkert (Haut-Rhin), Joël Giraud (Hautes-Alpes) or the Modem Geneviève Darrieussecq (Landes) are in favorable ballot.

Conversely, Jean-Michel Blanquer was curtly eliminated in the first round in the Loiret.

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin obtained nearly 40% of the votes in the 10th district, in Tourcoing.

As for the newly appointed Minister of Solidarity Damien Abad, accused of rape by two women, he came first with more than 34% of the votes in the 5th district of Ain despite the media storm.

Our file on the legislative

Candidate for his own succession in the first constituency of the Somme, François Ruffin himself qualified for the second round.

And Fabien Roussel will also be in the final: the boss of the PCF obtained more than 31% of the votes in the first round in the 20th district of the North.

Finally, Olivier Véran and Gabriel Attal are comfortably in the lead, respectively in the first district of Isère and the 10th district of Hauts-de-Seine.

For the rest, discover the

results of the first round of the 2022 legislative elections

by constituency in each city and department.

Policy

Legislative results 2022: La Nupes and the presidential majority neck and neck between 25 and 27% of the vote, according to the first estimates

Elections

Legislative Results 2022: The candidates of the presidential majority in the lead in New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna

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