Overview
- Rist, the Renaissance candidate, took 62.1% of the vote against 37.9% for the Rassemblement National’s Tiffanie Rabault, according to official results.
- Turnout was very low, with 69.6% abstention in the runoff after an already high 70.6% a week earlier.
- The by-election was triggered because her designated substitute, Stéphane Chouin, refused to take her National Assembly seat after her October 2025 appointment to the government.
- By staying in the cabinet, she will hand the Assembly seat to new substitute Marie-Philippe Lubet, the Horizons mayor of Saint-Denis-en-Val.
- A rheumatologist first elected in 2017, Rist led the first round and had previously defeated Rabault in the 2024 legislative runoff.