An unsurprising result confirmed at 9:40 p.m. this Sunday evening in Jouarre.
Here, Marine Le Pen takes first place.
In the rural town of 4,000 inhabitants, the candidate of the National Rally won 55% of the vote, or 968 votes against 791 for Emmanuel Macron.
Or 7 points - and 160 votes - more for the candidate than in the second round of the 2017 presidential election.
A vote consistent with the first round.
Marine Le Pen already came first a fortnight ago with 32% of the vote, if we count the votes for Éric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, in all the far right had won 42% of the ballots.
Emmanuel Macron had come in third position (21%) because Jean-Luc Mélenchon had gathered 22% of the votes and took 2nd place.
Once again, one in three voters abstained.
Participation was 69% in the municipality against 70% in the first round.
To this abstention rate of just over 31%, must be added all the whites and nulls, which weighs 8.3% of the votes.
This is as many fewer votes at the polls for the two finalists in this presidential election because this represents 48.74% of registered voters.
“This score was expected”
For Fabien Vallée, the mayor (DVD) of Jouarre, who had received the support of the RN during the municipal elections of 2020, "this score was expected, it corresponds in the neighboring municipalities and in a good part of the department".
Because, “in rural areas, there are people who suffer and who feel abandoned and they are right to express this at the ballot box.
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Satisfied with the result, the elected official believes that this "non-Macronist right must be represented in the legislative elections in order to represent the voters of this territory".
He also salutes a historically high score in his commune.
Because during the last presidential election in 2017, it was Emmanuel Macron who won first place with 52% of the vote.
Yet in the first round, the candidate of the National Rally had won first place with already 32% of the vote.
Jouarre, Sunday April 24, 2022:
At the announcement of the provisional national results at 8 p.m., not a sound in the multipurpose room.
The tellers, the people who count all the ballots, remain unfazed and continue to methodically count each vote.
At each table, while one person opens the bids, another announces the name of a candidate and the last two record the results in a register.
“We go on, we are warm and motivated”, jokes one of them.
"Marine cares about people in the countryside"
Among the people crossed at the exit of the polling station at the end of the day, very few are those who agree to say which ballot they put in the ballot box.
Sophie, she says it straight away: “I voted for Marine Le Pen, as in the first round.
Unlike Emmanuel Macron, Marine cares about people in the countryside who have to take their car every day to go to work and she has focused her campaign on purchasing power”.
In the small towns of the department, whose results were known at the start of the evening this Sunday, Marine Le Pen still totaled around 9:30 p.m. around 48% of the votes.
Around 10:30 p.m., his overall score in Seine-et-Marne stabilized at around 43%.
But Sabine, Thierry and Éric do not understand the reasons for this vote.
Questioned after the announcement of the results, they too expected these scores.
“People have been voting for the far right here for years, yet Jouarre is a very quiet town, there is no crime,” laments Thierry.
