Occitanie remains on the left.
With 58.5% of the vote according to the first estimates, the outgoing socialist president Carole Delga achieves one of the highest scores of this ballot.
Compared to 2015, it also gained nearly 15 points (44.81%).
It is thus ahead of the candidate of the National Rally Jean-Paul Garraud (23.5%) and the deputy LR Aurélien Pradié (18%).
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The outgoing president had created a surprise in the first round.
Outsmarting the polls that gave Jean-Paul Garraud in the lead, Carole Delga had obtained the best score of the socialists nationwide (39.6%).
Taking advantage of this advance, it had broken with its environmental allies, yet members of the outgoing majority and left alone in the first round (8.8%).
She also refused any alliance with France Insoumise, which came in sixth position in the first round (5.06%), considering that her project was "not compatible" with the Melenchonist discourse.
For his part, the candidate of the RN progresses very slightly compared to the first round (22.61%).
Aurélien Pradié gained 4 points (12.19%).
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Carole Delga's victory allows the left to keep one of its historic lands. Eliminated at the first stage of the ballot (8.78%), the Macronist candidate, Vincent Terrail-Novès, refused to give a voting instruction. The elected official had however confided that his ballot would go to the Socialist.
