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Partials in general are record abstention rates
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It is clear that the adage breathed by a socialist parliamentarian has been confirmed.
Consequences of the municipal elections and the July government reshuffle, six partial legislative elections were organized this Sunday in Maine-et-Loire, Haut-Rhin, Yvelines, Val-de-Marne, Seine-Maritime and Reunion.
They promise to be marked by massive abstention at 79% in the 1st district of Haut-Rhin, 82% in the 5th of Seine-Maritime and in the 3rd of Maine-et-Loire, and 84% in the 1st of Réunion , aggravated by the health crisis.
In comparison, the first round of municipal elections in 2020, on March 15, was marked by a historic abstention of 55.34%.
The second round on June 28 broke this record, with 58.33%.
In five of the six constituencies, this first round is due to the fact that under the rule of non-accumulation of mandates, the former incumbents of the post preferred to occupy a chair of mayor, even of a small municipality, rather than retain their headquarters at the Palais Bourbon.
And their deputies did not wish to take over, twenty months before the legislative elections of 2022. Overview of the results of the first round of the six partial legislative elections.
● In Seine-Maritime, the left in front of the RN
In the 5th district of Seine-Maritime, eight candidates vied for the votes of this socialist bastion, to succeed former PS deputy Christophe Bouillon, elected mayor of Barentin in May.
The PS candidate Gérard Leseul wins in the first round with 39.94% of the vote.
Jean-Cyril Montier (RN) reaches the second round with 18.01% of the vote.
● In Yvelines,
LREM could lose a seat
Only one LREM seat is at stake, in the 11th district of Yvelines, where Nadia Hai, appointed Minister Delegate for the City, has resigned.
She thus wanted to provoke a by-election to prevent her deputy, indicted for drug trafficking, from sitting in what was the chosen land of the former socialist presidential candidate Benoit Hamon.
The candidate of the right, Philippe Benassaya, finishes first according to the first estimates.
Final results to come.
● In Réunion, the favorite left
Huguette Bello, elected mayor of Saint-Paul, resigned her seat as deputy for the second constituency of Réunion while her deputy Olivier Hoarau wished to keep the town hall of the Port.
If the PCF lost an elected official, it would only have 15 deputies left, the minimum threshold to constitute a group in the National Assembly.
But the successor of Huguette Bello was able to make the union on the left, except with the Greens.
The opposition was erupted with 13 candidates.
The second round will be played between two candidates: Karine Lebon (PLR, PS, LFI), the successor of Huguette Bello, and Audrey Fontaine (Various right), who respectively obtained 52.15% and 15.86% of the votes.
The participation rate capped at just over 14% of registrants, which does not allow Karine Lebon to be elected in the first round.
● In Val-de-Marne, the left scattered
In the 9th district of Val-de-Marne, the socialist Luc Carvournas favored the town hall of Alfortville.
Against the backdrop of fratricidal wars, the left was crumbled.
Europe Ecologie Les Verts (EELV) parachuted its number two, Sandra Régol, against Isabelle Santiago, the socialist supported by Luc Carvounas.
The latter will face the environmental candidate in the second round.
They collect respectively 33.7% and 17.4% of the votes.
● In the Haut-Rhin, the right should retain its stronghold
LR deputy Éric Straumann left his seat in the 1st district of Haut-Rhin to become mayor of Colmar.
However, his deputy Brigitte Klinkert was immediately appointed Minister for Integration.
Yves Hemedinger, the LR candidate, came in first, winning the support of 45.39% of the voters.
In front of him, the environmental candidate Frédéric Hilbert gathered 23.53%.
● In Maine-et-Loire, the right divided but first
The election of Jean-Charles Taugourdeau (LR) as mayor of Beaufort-en-Anjou and the renunciation of his deputy provoked a new election in the 3rd constituency of the department, a land historically anchored to the right.
Candidate Anne-Laure Blin (LR), ex-parliamentary attaché to outgoing MP Jean-Charles Taugourdeau, leads with 25.2% of the vote, ahead of Daphnée Raveneau (EELV) with 22.8%.
LREM candidate Guy Bertin finished fourth, behind dissident LR, with 18.4% and 20.2% of the vote respectively.
