Franceinfo lists the candidates who obtained more than 50% of the votes cast as of this Sunday. This map is updated throughout the evening, as the counts continue.
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Some French people already know their future MP. If a second round will be necessary in the majority of constituencies to designate those elected to the National Assembly, 55 candidates were elected in the first stage of the legislative elections, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior covering 559 constituencies, Sunday 30 June. Among them, 39 had been taken over by the National Rally and its allies.
Jordan Bardella’s party came out on top in the first round with 33.2% of the vote, according to an Ipsos-Talan estimate for France Télévisions, Radio France, France 24, RFI and LCP. It came ahead of the New Popular Front (28.1%), Ensemble (21.0%) and Les Républicains (10.0%).
To win in the first round, a candidate must obtain more than 50% of the votes cast and the votes of at least a quarter of the voters registered on the electoral lists, recalls the website Vie-publique.fr. Franceinfo lists those who have managed to meet these conditions, in this map updated throughout the evening, as the counts continue.
Among the candidates elected in the first round, we find in particular Marine Le Pen in the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais or Julien Odoul, outgoing deputy of the National Rally, in the 3rd constituency of Yonne. On the left, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, was also re-elected in the 11th constituency of Seine-et-Marne, as were the outgoing LFI deputies Manuel Bompard (4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône) and Mathilde Panot (10th constituency of Val-de-Marne).
As for the presidential majority, two candidates were elected in the first round: Mikaele Seo, in Wallis-et-Futuna, and Pierre Cazeneuve, close to Emmanuel Macron, in Hauts-de-Seine. Les Républicains MP Philippe Juvin was also re-elected in his Hauts-de-Seine constituency.
In previous elections, marked by high abstention, the threshold of 25% of registered voters was out of reach for most candidates. But the sharp increase in participation, which is expected to reach 65.8% according to an Ipsos-Talan estimate for France Télévisions, Radio France, France 24, RFI and LCPis a game changer this year.
In the previous legislative elections, only five candidates were elected in the first round. Four represented the left, within the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes): Alexis Corbière (62.9%) in the 6th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, Danièle Obono (57.1%) in the 17th district of Paris, Sophia Chikirou (53.7%) in the 6th district of Paris and Sarah Legrain (56.5%) in the 16th district of Paris.
The fifth deputy designated in the first round of the 2022 legislative elections, Yannick Favennec, obtained 57.1% of the votes in the third constituency of Mayenne. A member of the Horizons party, he was elected under the presidential majority label.