Overview
- An 81-year-old man died of cardiac arrest just after casting his ballot at the gymnase des Glaisins in Annecy, despite on-site defibrillation attempts and emergency care.
- The three polling stations housed there (Nos. 34, 35 and 36) were temporarily closed, their ballot boxes kept under supervision, and they reopened at about 10:40, the mayor said.
- In Saint-Étienne, an assesseur who was also a colistier for RN candidate Corentin Jousserand died around midday in the Jules Ferry polling place, which was closed for roughly three hours.
- In Carcassonne, the city confirmed that an 82-year-old woman suffered a sudden illness near her polling station and died after emergency intervention, and voting there was not formally halted.
- Local and national outlets tallied three separate fatalities during Sunday’s second-round voting, and officials later confirmed the Annecy victim’s age as 81 after early reports varied.