The essential
Abstention is close to 67%.
Two out of three voters did not come.
Among young people, it is over 85%.
Never seen.
The leavers were, for the most part, kept in the lead.
The left totaled 34.4% of the vote and the right 28.7%.
La République en Marche experienced great disappointment, proof of its lack of local roots.
EELV failed to transform its municipal success last year.
Julien Bayou, the party's No. 1, called on all the left-wing lists to merge for the second round.
The National Rally loses nine points compared to 2015 when it thought to conquer at least one region, and several departments.
Marine Le Pen, Sunday evening, greedy his voters who did not "come out" and called on them to mobilize for the second round.
Follow the day's events live:
7:30 am.
The first color tour.
To see clearly, here is, on the map, the first balance that emerges.
Small nuance: Valérie Pécresse, who is no longer with the Republicans, came first in Ile-de-France.
7:20 a.m.
The same time of Guérini.
On France Inter, the boss of LREM Stanislas Guérini believes that in the same sentence that the political decomposition has advanced with this double ballot but in a "at the same time" dear to the president, that the outgoing and the parties installed have had the favors of voters.
7:10.
A somewhat difficult awakening.
This morning, all the activists will still think about several elements of the equation: this huge abstention, the results of the RN, lower than what the polls said, and the possible alliances for the second round.
7 hours.
Hello and welcome to this live.
In the aftermath of the first round of regional and departmental elections, will the lists which obtained between 5 and 10% merge? And the losers, who will they call to vote for? The day is going to be busy for everyone.
