The noose was already tight in the Oise in 2017. This time, on the evening of the second round, the departmental match between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen turned in favor of the far-right party.
After her breakthrough in 2017 (46.72%), the elected official of the National Rally achieves a new historic score: 52.73%, six points more than five years ago.
With a score of 47.27% in the second round, the candidate of La République en Marche (LREM), re-elected to the office of President of the Republic on April 24, therefore fell sharply in the Oise (53.28% in 2017).
"The party has grown"
The navy blue wave has thus once again swept, unsurprisingly, on rural municipalities, a territory that the leader of the Frontist party had already seduced in 2017. Like Moliens (1,150 inhabitants), in the north-west of the department, where more than 71% of the votes cast were in favor of Marine Le Pen, this is almost five points more than in 2017. In the village of Solente (130 inhabitants), the scores are just as highlights: 84.21% for Le Pen (64.41% in 2017).
“Before, voting FN then RN was a challenge.
Not anymore, launches Audrey Havez, RN delegate from Oise.
We were on the pitch all the time and it paid off.
This Sunday afternoon, I was in the canton of Betz.
I was told:
Welcome home.
It's strong to hear that.
And to add: “Before, we weren't too focused on immigration.
We still are, but we have expanded our themes to health and purchasing power.
Voters saw that we had opened up.
The party grew.
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Several large cities choose Marine Le Pen
And it is precisely where Marine Le Pen had failed to take advantage during the previous presidential election, in the cities, that the game was played.
As in Pont-Sainte-Maxence, where 55.46% of registered voters voted for her, against 47.63% in 2017. At the end of the count, the mayor, Arnaud Dumontier (LR) was fatalistic.
“This result shows that Pont-Sainte-Maxence is a city where the population is part of this suffering France.
Since 2002, there has been a sort of major shift towards the FN and then the RN, it is a political situation which is worrying.
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In Clermont or Crépy-en-Valois, both municipalities with more than 8,000 inhabitants, Emmanuel Macron's opponent had already come out on top after the first round on April 10.
On the evening of the second round, it passes, there too, in front of the outgoing president.
Same observation in Chambly, a socialist city, where Marine Le Pen obtained 51.6% of the vote (44.04% in 2017).
However, Mayor David Lazarus (PS) admits that he is not surprised.
"I predicted 52-48," he says.
“It's a town with a railway, working-class tradition.
Retiring at 65 was an unnecessarily negative signal and very badly experienced here, ”said the elected official.
According to him, Chambly is one of those peri-urban towns where some voters translated "their anger and their concerns into a vote for Marine Le Pen".
Eric Woerth, deputy of Oise, ex LR, new LREM, potential minister of Emmanuel Macron, voting in Chantilly this Sunday April 24, at the start of the afternoon
“This vote for the extremes reflects the anger of a worried population.
It is different depending on the area and more present in rural areas.
It will be necessary to take this into account and apply a policy which will lower the score of the RN ”, reacts Éric Woerth, deputy LR of Oise.
Macron in the lead in Beauvais, Compiègne and Creil, but...
Because for the first time in the Oise, the RN therefore manages to finish at the top of the votes in urban territory.
And if Emmanuel Macron retains pole position in the three major cities of the department, the gap is undeniably narrowing.
In Beauvais, Compiègne and Creil, the LREM candidate lost around five points compared to his 2017 results. “I would have been saddened if the city rocked, comments Caroline Cayeux, the mayor of Beauvais.
It's a relief that we stayed within the national average.
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Particular case, that of Noyon, a city favorable to the far right for many years, where the two candidates are neck and neck: only eleven votes separate them, with a slight advantage for Emmanuel Macron.
Caroline Cayeux, mayor of Beauvais, is one of the people who could join the future government of Emmanuel Macron.
LP/Patrick Caffin
In Creil, the socialist mayor says he is reassured.
“But the gap is getting smaller and smaller.
This result should also be taken as a warning.
In the end, it was a minority who voted for him
(Macron)
, ”says Jean-Claude Villemain (PS), who refers to the abstention (25.74%), higher than in 2017 (23.80 %).
With this historic score, the RN now places the legislative elections in the line of sight.
“It's the third round, warns Audrey Havez.
We are already in working order.
There will be one candidate in each constituency of Oise.
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