Martine Aubry leads the first round of municipal elections in Lille with 29%, according to initial estimates ELABE Berger Levrault for Le Parisien and BFMTV. But it is closely followed by the EELV candidate Stéphane Baly, second with 25.2%. Martine Aubry's former chief of staff, Violette Spillebout, candidate for LREM, would get 17.6%. Marc-Philippe Daubresse (LR) would collect 8.2% and the RN candidate Eric Cattelin-Denu 6.7%.
According to this estimate, abstention is extremely strong with 66.3%.
Martine Aubry had assured in 2014 that this would be her last mandate. But the socialist figure Martine Aubry ended up announcing last November that she was a candidate for a fourth term in Lille (North). The former minister builds on her record and chose two main targets during her campaign: the Greens and La République en Marche. These two lists are led by former "friends": Stéphane Baly, head of the ecologists, has been on the municipal team alongside the mayor for six years, and Violette Spillebout was her chief of staff before being invested by the Macron party.
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During the previous election, Martine Aubry's “Pour Lille, Pour vous” list came first with 34.86% of the votes in the first round, followed by that led by Jean-René Lecerf (22.73%) and then that of the frontist candidate Eric Dillies (17.15%). The ecologist Lise Daleux had won 11.08% of the votes cast.
In the first round of the 2017 presidential election, the city placed Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the lead with 29.92% of the votes cast, or 27,001 votes. In second position, Emmanuel Macron collected 22,574 votes, or 25.02%. Third, François Fillon attracted 14.41% of the vote, while 13.83% of the voters chose Marine Le Pen.
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In the second round of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron came out on top, with 78.27% of the vote, ahead of Marine Le Pen who won 21.73% of the vote. At the national level, the former Minister of the Economy obtained 66.1% and the Frontist patron 33.9%.