Triangular, duels, solo candidates and constituencies that will not need to vote... The configurations will not be the same throughout France on Sunday for the second round of the legislative elections.

We summarize everything for you in five pieces of information.

The number of candidates

Of the 6,293 candidates competing in the first round, only 1,148 remain, including 655 men and 493 women.

Among the contenders, there are still 370 outgoing, 70 others having been eliminated.

The candidates of the outgoing majority (LREM, Modem, Horizons and Agir) are the most numerous (415), ahead of the left alliance Nupes (380), not to mention three socialist dissidents who refused to join this coalition.

As for the National Rally, it aligns 209 candidates in the second round and Les Républicains 71 (in addition to five UDIs and 14 DVDs).

It's dueling time

The configuration that we find most often, and by far, is the duel.

Together !

and the Nupes will clash in 270 constituencies out of 577, while the presidential coalition will face the RN in 108 of them.

The very media question of the barrage on the far right in the Nupes-RN duels concerns 62 constituencies, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior.

Balanced adversities for Les Républicains: 25 duels to come against the RN, 24 against the Nupes and 18 against Together!

It should be noted that several candidates obtained more than 50% of the votes in the first round, but that the participation was insufficient to validate their victory.

The suspense is therefore low for Marine Le Pen or Manuel Bompard.

Rare triangular

There will be seven triangles in the second round, compared to only one five years ago.

Despite this increase, they remain rare also because of abstention, the candidate who comes third must obtain a number of votes at least equal to 12.5% ​​of registered voters.

Four constituencies will pit a candidate from Ensemble!, from the left and from the RN: the 3rd from Dordogne, the 2nd from Lot-et-Garonne, the 2nd from Nièvre and the 2nd from Tarn.

In two constituencies of Hauts-de-Seine, the 2nd and the 3rd, the triangular will oppose LR to Nupes and Together.

Finally, in the 2nd of the Lot, there will be a dissident PS candidate against Nupes and Ensemble!.

An eighth triangular was planned in the first constituency of Lot-et-Garonne, but the candidate of the Nupes Maryse Combres strictly applied the Republican front and withdrew to make way for a duel Together! / RN.

Solo in the ring

As curious as it may seem, some candidates will have no opponent, their rivals, qualified for the second round, having finally chosen to throw in the towel.

Three candidates from the left-wing Nupes alliance thus find themselves alone in the running and therefore guaranteed to win: Clémentine Autain (2nd from Seine-St-Denis), Soumya Bourouaha (4th from Seine-St-Denis) and Elie Califer (4th from Guadeloupe).

Already elected

Five candidates were elected in the first round, four for Nupes and one for the outgoing presidential majority Together!.

The four left-wing deputies who will not need to cross swords next Sunday are all based in Ile-de-France: these are the outgoing Insoumis from Seine-Saint-Denis, Alexis Corbière (7th district) and Paris , Danièle Obono (17th district), as well as two new LFI deputies in Paris, Sophia Chikirou (6th) and Sarah Legrain (16th).

For his part, Yannick Favennec-Bécot (64), ex-UDI passed to Horizons, managed to be re-elected for a 5th term (57.13%) in the 3rd constituency of Mayenne.

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