It was not just regional elections this weekend.
The French - in any case the third of voters who did not shy away from the polls - also voted to renew the composition of the departmental councils.
Here's how voters voted.
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The summary of the results
Let us first look at the map of the lists that came first by department: relative layer of the vote to the regional ones, it shows a right in the process of ensuring the presidency of all the departments of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, of eight of the nine departments. of the Grand Est, and which borders on the grand slam in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, after having conquered the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Also in the west, the right will unsurprisingly keep the six departments of Center-Val de Loire, and has been renewed in four departments of Pays de la Loire, only Loire-Atlantique remaining on the left.
The Communist Party lost Val-de-Marne, the last department he led, Sunday to the benefit of the right, Seine-Saint-Denis remaining the only Ile-de-France department on the left after these departmental ones.
The outgoing majorities, right in the lead, have all been renewed in the five departments of Hauts-de-France, where the RN also records a heavy defeat, in particular in Picardy where it no longer has any elected.
Conversely, in Occitanie, 12 of the 13 departments, including those of Pyrénées-Orientales and Gard where the RN had ambitions, remain on the left, while Aveyron retains its status as a historic right-wing land.
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It is closer in New Aquitaine, where the left has retained and even reinforced its majority in the five departmental councils it held and won in Charente by the smallest of the margins (a canton), the right retaining for its part six departments.
All the outgoing departmental majorities were also retained on Sunday in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the six departments on the right, like the two on the left, keeping their majority at the end of the second round.
In Brittany, only two of the four Breton departments - Morbihan and Ille-et-Vilaine - retained their outgoing majority on Sunday after the departmental elections, the right having won Finistère on the wire, while the Côtes-d'Armor veered widely to the left.
Results, department by department
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: box on the right
In
Ain
, the union of the left was not enough to shake the pairs of the right, who won 21 of the 23 cantons of the territory after a very favorable ballot at the end of the first round.
In the
Allier
, which has known successive alternations since 1970, the right is strengthening its majority and winning 14 cantons out of 19, ie 4 more than in the previous assembly.
Uncertainty in
Ardèche
, a bastion of the left for 23 years, which could switch to the right.
The right which has led
Cantal
for several decades without alternation retains an overwhelming majority, with only 4 seats out of 30 for the Union of the Left.
The right has consolidated its foothold in the
Drôme
by winning in 15 of the 19 cantons of the department.
The outgoing majority of President LR Marie-Pierre Mouton thus obtained 30 of the 38 departmental seats against 8 for the left which had lost this territory in 2015.
The right and the center keep the hand on
Isère
, with 21 cantons out of 29, and the alliance of the lefts - the Printemps Isérois - is worse than in 2015 and goes from 11 to 8 cantons.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of outgoing LR president Georges Ziegler, leading in the first round, won in 18 of the 21 cantons of the
Loire
.
It thus obtained 36 departmental seats against 6 for the left, including four for the Socialist Party and 2 for the Union on the left with the ecologists.
In
Haute-Loire
, stronghold of Laurent Wauquiez, unsurprisingly, the right remains largely in the majority with 17 cantons out of 19.
Historic push of the right in the
Puy-de-Dôme
, where the left is beaten in 17 cantons out of 31. It loses several cantons which were traditionally acquired to it.
Traditional bastion of the right and the center, the
Rhône
was won without much surprise by the outgoing majority of President LR Christophe Guilloteau.
Unsurprisingly, the
Savoie
department
, a land on the right, remains in the LR fold, headed by Hervé Gaymard, reelected in Albertville, and 15 of the 19 cantons.
The right almost renews its feat of 2015 in
Haute-Savoie
- winning all the cantons - and controls, with the center, 16 of the 17 cantons.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: status quo
In the
Territory of Belfort
, the right keeps the department by winning six cantons out of nine, one more than in the last elections.
In the
Jura
, the right retains the vast majority of the 17 cantons, while outgoing president Clément Pernot (DVD) was re-elected in the first round in his canton.
The left won only one canton and LREM two.
The left keeps
Haute-Saône
, led by the former socialist and outgoing President of the Departmental Council Yves Krattinger (DVG), at the head of the department for 20 years.
In the
Doubs
, the right of the outgoing president, Christine Bouquin (DVD), retains the majority of the cantons of the department.
In
Burgundy
, the
Côte d'Or
and the
Saône-et-Loire
remain largely to the right.
In
Yonne
too, the right and the center come out on top in most cantons, outgoing president Patrick Gendraud (LR) largely winning in the canton of Chablis with 73.32%.
Finally in the
Nièvre
, the left retains its historic stronghold, the socialist vice-president of the department, Fabien Bazin, should therefore succeed Alain Lassus, who is retiring.
Brittany: things are moving!
The
Finistère
, left for 23 years, returns to the right narrowly with 28 seats against 26 left.
The department was headed by Nathalie Sarrabezolles (PS).
In the
Côtes-d'Armor
, on the other hand, the union of the left has largely delighted the right and the center of the majority that it had lost in 2015 with 38 of the 54 seats to be filled and 19 cantons out of 27.
The
Morbihan
led by President François Goulard DVD, which is not represented, kept Sunday cape, with 32 seats to the right of the 42 to be filled.
The left resisted, especially in Lorient.
No change either in
Ille-et-Vilaine
, where the left retains the majority of this department chaired by the PS since 2004, with 34 seats out of the 54 to be filled.
Note the strong push from environmentalists, who won five of the six cantons of Rennes.
Center-Val de Loire: the right is full
In the
Cher
, the right keeps control of the department, with twelve cantons out of 19, in the same proportion as in 2015, when it took the department from the left.
In
Eure-et-Loir
, the LR and DVD right wins almost everywhere, leaving only two cantons in the center.
In
Indre
, the victory of the right was hardly in doubt at the end of the first round, in a department that it has retained since 1985.
In
Loir-et-Cher
, the right led by Guillaume Peltier, elected in the canton of Chambord, claims 14 seats out of 30.
In
Indre-et-Loire
, the departmental majority is declining but retains 13 cantons out of 19 (against 15 in 2015).
Finally in the
Loiret
, the right and the center also retain a clear majority with 28 seats out of 42. The left and environmentalists, however, recorded a clear push, especially in Orleans.
The Grand Est remains anchored to the right
With 26 seats out of 38 and 61.21% of the vote, the union of the right and the center keeps a solid majority in the
Ardennes
.
With six elected, the left resists but loses two seats.
The RN collapses.
The RN, with 24.93% of the vote (28.2% in the 1st round) and zero seats, did not resist the wave of the right and the center in the
Aube
, a department dominated by the figure of François Baroin, mayor of Troyes and president of the mayors of France.
It obtains 30 seats out of 34 with 62.34% of the votes.
The
European community of Alsace, a
new department which merged Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin at the start of the year, remains unsurprisingly on the right with 58 seats out of 80.
As always since 1958, the majority of the right and the center remains largely in the lead in the
Marne
, with 40 seats out of 46 and 66.37% of the votes cast.
The union of the right and the center remains the first political force in
Haute-Marne
with 30 seats out of 34. As in 2015, the RN retains two seats.
The right and the center keep control of the
Meuse
and win 26 seats out of 34.
The
Meurthe-et-Moselle
, one department of the Grand East was left, still pink and the union of the left and environmentalists are even strengthens its hold, with 30 of 46 seats.
The right strengthened its hold in
Moselle
by winning 48 seats out of 54. While the Socialists alone had 14 seats, the left saved only six.
The right remains very largely in the majority in the
Vosges
and wins 26 seats out of 34.
Hauts-de-France: the graduates reinforced, the RN plunges
In the
North
, the most populous department in France, the right retains its majority acquired in 2015, however losing two elected representatives with 25 out of 41 cantons. The left, ousted in 2015, won a canton, totaling 32 elected.
The RN remains absent from the departmental council, and the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin is elected in his canton of Tourcoing.
The left (Union de la gauche, various gauche, PS) triumphed in
Pas-de-Calais
, one of the poorest departments in the country, strengthening its majority with 22 cantons won out of 39, against 18 in 2015. Fiasco in revenge for the RN.
The right is retreating.
Setback across the board for the RN in the
Aisne
, which placed Marine Le Pen in the lead in the second round of the 2017 presidential elections (52.9%): after having won over four cantons in 2015, he no longer has any none dismissed by a Republican front.
In the
Somme
, the outgoing center-right majority, led by Stéphane Haussoulier, acclaimed in his canton of Abbeville 2 (69.9% ahead of the RN), emerges reinforced by this election.
The RN is empty-handed.
The right, which had delighted the
Oise
to the PS in 2015, capitalized on its score in the first round, winning the 17 of the 21 cantons where it was in the lead, two more than in 2015.
Ile-de-France: earthquake in Val-de-Marne
Political earthquake in
Val-de-Marne
, in the hands of the PCF since 1976: the right-wing list led by Olivier Capitanio won in front of the left alliance led by the communist Christian Favier.
Since the loss of the Allier in the 2015 elections, Val-de-Marne was the last department run by the Communists, thanks to an alliance with leftist forces.
In
Seine-Saint-Denis
, the left, which had united in the first round to counter its opponents from the right and from the center, is strengthening its positions.
In the
Val-d'Oise
, the candidates from the right and from the center clearly outstripped a left party in dispersed order, and without a local leader.
In
Seine-et-Marne
, voters have renewed many outgoing departmental advisers, without worrying about internal divisions in the center-right.
LR deputy Jean-François Parigi united in the ranks of the majority, which therefore remains on the right.
Unsurprisingly, the right retained the
Hauts-de-Seine
and the
Yvelines
.
In the
Essonne
, taken by the right to the left in 2015, the duel was closer but the figures on Sunday evening suggested a victory for the right.
Normandy: suspense
The fate of
Seine-Maritime
, a department chaired by an LREM, is likely to switch to the left: everything will depend on the choice of a centrist elected representative who wants to be independent.
Seine-Maritime had shifted to the right in 2015 after eleven years on the left, but the new majority was short.
In the
Eure
, the Minister of Overseas Sébastien Lecornu retains his departmental majority on the right.
His partner wins with 81.11% of the vote in his stronghold of Vernon.
The
Calvados
also remains on the right but the left nibble a few cantons.
In
Orne
, the right-wing majority is reinforced by a seat, welcomed Sunday DVD president Christophe de Balorre who took over from former UMP minister Alain Lambert in 2017 at the head of this traditionally department. to the right.
La
Manche
also remains on the right.
New Aquitaine: the Charente returns to the left, which is reinforced in Gironde
The
Charente
swings to the left for a single canton, the same margin by which the right had won in 2015. The strategy of union of the left (PS / PC / EELV), more or less homogeneous, has paid off.
The right and the center, which have governed
Charente-Maritime
since 1985, retain control, with a balance of power that remains stable (34 seats against 20), even if some cantons change sides.
In
Corrèze
, historically anchored to the right, of which only François Hollande (from 2008 to 2015) had briefly broken the hegemony, the right consolidates its base, and even conquers cantons.
Claude Chirac, 58, daughter of the former head of state, was elected.
Once a stronghold of the left narrowly passed to the right in 2015, the
Creuse
consolidates this new anchoring and the right sees its majority increase from 16 to 18 seats (out of 30) in the departmental assembly.
The right, which had ravished the
Deux-Sèvres
to the left in 2015, retains control of 12 of the 17 cantons, in a department where 18 of the 24 elected members of the outgoing majority were returning to the campaign and where the RN was unable to maintain itself. in no canton.
Unsurprisingly, the
Dordogne
remains acquired to the left, which has led it for 26 years and almost continuously since the Liberation, winning 17 cantons out of 25.
The left keeps control of the
Gironde
, which it has held since 1988.
The
Haute-Vienne
, historic stronghold of the left since 1930, confirms this rootedness.
The left, which has governed the
Landes
for more than 40 years, has strengthened its majority, thanks in particular to the PS deputy Boris Vallaud, elected in a canton held until then by the right.
Given likely to switch to the right, the
Lot-et-Garonne
finally saw the left hold its own, keeping 12 out of 21 cantons.
The list of union of the right and the center of Jean-Jacques Lasserre (MoDem) keeps the reins of the
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
, a department taken over to the left in 2015, in the face of a dispersed left-wing opposition.
The right and the center, which have dominated the department for nearly half a century, largely retain the reins of
Vienne
.
Occitanie remains on the left
Department ruled by the right since 1949,
Aveyron
was at the center of a standoff between deputy LR Arnaud Viala and outgoing president Jean-François Galliard (UDI).
The Viala movement finally established itself in 14 out of 23 cantons.
Directed by the left without interruption since 1945, like six other departments of the Occitanie region, the department of
Aude
remains in the hands of outgoing president Hélène Sandragné (PS).
The left-wing departmental majority accentuates its domination in
Ariège
, from 11 to 12 out of 13 cantons, by pocketing a canton hitherto held by the right.
The left won 11 cantons out of 17 in the
Gers
, the only department in France without motorways.
The
Gard
, marked in particular by social indicators (poverty, unemployment, etc.) in the red, remains on the left.
He was among those who placed the RN in the lead in the first round (31.50% of the vote), but the far-right party only won two seats.
In the
Hérault
, the outgoing president PS Kléber Mesquida, 75, consolidated his majority at the end of the second round in the 25 cantons.
The PS and its allies retain their majority in the departmental assembly of
Haute-Garonne
: with 23 of the 27 cantons.
Chaired since 2011 by the PRG Michel Pélieu, who was reelected in the first round in his canton, the
Hautes-Pyrénées department
remains on the left.
The majority of the left has been largely renewed in the
Lot
, with 32 departmental advisers out of 34. The right and the RN do not obtain any advisers.
Historically anchored to the right,
Lozère
had swung to the left for the first time in its history in 2015 and remains to the left.
The departmental socialist majority retains the
Pyrénées-Orientales
, which it has led since 1998. It wins in at least 9 of the 17 cantons.
Outgoing PS president Christophe Ramond has further strengthened his majority in the
Tarn
.
The PRG Jean-Michel Baylet, boss of the La Dépêche du Midi group and former minister, is on the way to reconquer
Tarn-et-Garonne
, which he had delighted in 2015, a former relative, Christian Astruc, with the support of the right.
Pays de la Loire: status quo
In
Loire-Atlantique
, the election was closer than elsewhere but the left gained ground compared to 2015, taking 18 out of 31 cantons.
In
Vendée
, the department remains on the right, the left having lost the only canton it held, that of Roche-sur-Yon-2.
In
Mayenne
, the right remains in the majority but the left makes a push by winning the canton of Mayenne.
In
Maine-et-Loire
, no change in majority, the various right-wing pairs won 43.35% of the vote.
In
Sarthe
, the departmental majority of Dominique Le Mèner (various right) is renewed.
Paca: to the right all
Historic shift in the
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
which passes to the right after 23 years of socialism, the LR-UDI list having won a large majority of this rural department of 164,000 inhabitants.
In the
Alpes-Maritimes
, a right-wing bastion, the Republicans are strengthening their position and even bordering on monopoly, with 26 cantons won out of 27 and therefore 52 seats out of 54.
Dans les Bouches-du-Rhône, Martine Vassal (LR) a confirmé sa victoire de 2015, quand elle avait ravi un département acquis à la gauche depuis plus de 100 ans : elle s’assure 17 cantons sur 29, contre 16 en 2015.
Dans les Hautes-Alpes, la droite, alliée au centre et menée par le président sortant Jean-Marie Bernard, l’emporte largement en gagnant 13 des 15 cantons que compte ce département rural.
Dans le Vaucluse, où l’extrême droite réalise des scores records depuis des années, le RN conserve trois cantons et gauche et droite arrivent à égalité -six cantons chacune.
Dans le Var, la droite sortante parvient à reprendre deux cantons au RN qui perd ses élus, sauf à Fréjus, sur fond d’abstention massive.
Et en Outre-mer ?
Le président sortant de la région Guadeloupe, Ary Chalus (LREM), a remporté une large victoire, recueillant 72 % des suffrages face à la socialiste Josette Borel Lincertin, présidente sortante du conseil départemental (28 %). A la Réunion, le rapport de force entre les tendances politiques devrait se dessiner lors de l’élection pour la présidence du Département le jeudi 1er juillet. Les électeurs de Mayotte ont confirmé l’ancrage à droite de ce département d’Outre-mer, la majorité des 26 conseillers départementaux élus dimanche étant étiquetés à droite ou au centre.
Pour rappel, la Guyane, la Martinique, et la Corse sont des collectivités territoriales qui exercent à la fois les compétences départementales et régionales.