The hour of reckoning has arrived for political parties.
At the end of the second round of the regional elections, on June 27, marked by a very strong abstention (65.3%) and a significant "bonus for leavers", the staffs take out the calculators.
How many votes have been garnered?
How many seats won?
How many regions detained?
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helps you disentangle the winners and losers of this final election before the presidential election.
● The right won the most votes, LREM achieved the worst score of a ruling party
The right and the left have taken their revenge.
Victims of the assaults of La République en Marche (LREM) and the National Rally (RN) at the national level, the traditional camps have shown their strength at the local level.
With more than 72% of the voters between them, they benefited from an important "bonus to the leavers".
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In detail, the right came first across the country.
Some 37.9% of voters, or 5.8 million French people, voted for the candidates of this political family, including eight outgoing region presidents.
The left is approaching this high level (34.75%), with 5.3 million votes.
However, both camps suffered from the strong demobilization: the right lost 4.3 million votes and the left 2.7 million compared to the 2015 election.
The strongest decline affects the ranks of the RN (19%): the party loses eight points and halves its vote score in six years, from 6.8 to 3.9 million voters.
Subject to its first regional election, LREM and its allies achieve the worst regional score for a party in power, with 7.1% of the vote.
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● The most seats for the right, the RN in free fall
In the regional hemicycles, the Republicans and their allies remain the most represented current: 784 regional councilors are from their lists, out of 1,926 elected in total.
This is less than in 2015, due to significant losses in Nouvelle-Aquitaine (-28), Reunion Island (-13) or even in the Grand Est (-10), which do not offset the gains elsewhere (+ 23 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, +6 in Normandy, or even +4 in Île-de-France).
The National Rally shows the biggest drop: it obtained 252 regional elected representatives, or 106 less than in 2015. Marine Le Pen's party loses seats in all regions, in particular in Hauts-de-France (- 22), in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (-17) and in the Grand Est (-13).
A poor performance.
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As for the LREM party, it missed an opportunity to establish itself in the regions.
Despite the mobilization of fifteen candidate ministers, the lists of the presidential majority are only represented in 9 out of 17 regions, with 118 elected - 144 if we add the 16 majority candidates elected with Renaud Muselier (LR ) in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and the 10 elected MoDem-Agir dissidents with Valérie Pécresse (LR) in Île-de-France.
In 2015, before they joined Emmanuel Macron, around fifty MoDem candidates had been elected, almost all of them with the right.
● The left holds eight regions, the right seven
On the map of France of regions, the left emerges strengthened from this election.
Out of 17 regions, only three flip-flops were observed, all overseas and for its benefit.
In Reunion, Huguette Bello beat ex-LR Didier Robert, in the last overseas region held by the right.
In Martinique, Serge Letchimy took the lead ahead of the independentist Alfred Marie-Jeanne.
In Guyana, Gabriel Serville for his part defeated Rodolphe Alexandre (regionalist).
As a result, eight regions are now led by the left, seven by the right, one by an LREM president (Ary Chalus in Guadeloupe) and one by an autonomist (Gilles Simeoni in Corsica).
The RN failed to conquer its first region, less than a year from the presidential election.
