Overview
- Official tallies show Paris led by Socialist Emmanuel Grégoire at 37.98% as Marseille heads to a near dead-heat runoff between Mayor Benoît Payan (35.5%) and RN’s Franck Allisio (35.35%) on March 22.
- Turnout was estimated at 56% to 58.5%, near a Fifth Republic low outside 2020 and well below the 63.55% recorded in 2014.
- The RN re-elected Louis Aliot outright in Perpignan and posted strong first-round scores in southern targets such as Marseille and Toulon, yet it again struggled to break through in many large cosmopolitan cities.
- Parties are now negotiating under France’s two-round, 10% threshold system, with rivals weighing pacts to block the RN and left-wing leaders split over potential tie-ups with France Unbowed.
- France Unbowed won Saint-Denis and is leading in Roubaix with strong showings in Lille, while centrist Edouard Philippe led Le Havre with about 43.8% and RN ally Éric Ciotti opened a first-round lead over incumbent Christian Estrosi in Nice.