What map of France after the second round?

What fate did the voters reserve for the presidential majority and the personalities involved in the legislative elections? Where are the different political forces located?

Of the 19 ministers still in the running in the second round of the legislative elections, 17 won their ticket to the Assembly: from Gabriel Attal to Stéphane Séjourné in Hauts-de-Seine, via Olivia Grégoire in Paris. There are also those who took advantage of the Republican front against the RN: Gérald Darmanin largely re-elected in Tourcoing, Agnès Pannier-Runacher victorious in Arras or Marc Fesneau in Loir-et-Cher. Those who fought against the left had less success: the former head of En Marche Stanislas Guerini was defeated in Paris, as was Sarah El Haïry in Nantes. The former government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, was also defeated in Isère, while the former Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne won her duel with the RN in Calvados. Another former minister of Emmanuel Macron stands out: Aurélien Rousseau, except that the former Minister of Health is elected under the colours of the New Popular Front in Yvelines.

Outside of the former presidential majority, personalities were also particularly followed. The rebellious François Ruffin won in the Somme against the RN thanks to the withdrawal of the Macronist candidate. LR also defeated the extreme right. The leader of the former LR group in the Assembly Olivier Marleix, who was 13 points behind the RN in the first round, will regain his seat as deputy. Laurent Wauquiez will also make his big return to the benches of the Assembly where he will meet François Hollande. The former President of the Republic beat the RN and the outgoing LR deputy in Corrèze.

Overall, the map of France following these results is mixed, like a vote where no absolute majority emerges, with left-wing deputies in force in the southwest quarter, the big cities or even in Seine-Saint-Denis. While in the west and up to the Centre-Val-de-Loire it is the Macronists who dominate, when the RN has its areas of strength in the Hauts-de-France and on the entire Mediterranean border.

The RN, which came in third, but established itself in territories where it had no MPs until now. Jordan Bardella’s party thus won its first MPs overseas: one in Réunion, another in Mayotte. The RN also elected a MP in Nièvre, in François Mitterrand’s former stronghold in Château-Chinon. In the neighboring department of Yonne, moreover, the three MPs are now stamped RN.