Three votes, out of sixty thousand cast.
This is what separated, on Sunday, in the second round of legislative elections, Monique Iborra, majority candidate, and Fabien Jouve, candidate for Nupes, in the 6th constituency of Haute Garonne.
With 27,569 votes against 27,566, the first line in the Assembly and the second should afford a few sleepless nights... This ultra-tight score could be anecdotal if it had not turned out to be extremely recurrent during this election which finally saw the majority win 245 seats against 131 for the left bloc, 89 for the RN and 70 for LR.
Villani eliminated with 19 votes, Bourguignon with 56
Twelve other deputies were elected with less than 100 votes difference: this is the case of Hadrien Ghomi (Ensemble) in Seine-et-Marne, winner with 4 votes ahead of his rival from Nupes, of Anthony Borsse in Loiret (11 votes more than his RN rival), Mikaele Seo in Wallis and Futuna (16 votes), or even Paul Midy, majority candidate who eliminated Cédric Villani, former macronist who passed under the banner of Nupes, for 19 votes, in the 5th constituency of Essonne.
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In total, out of 577 deputies, 63 were elected with less than 1% difference.
Among them, the former minister Brigitte Klinkert, who passes in the Haut-Rhin with 126 votes in advance, or the minister Clément Beaune, who saved his skin, and his position in the government, by winning over Caroline Mecary , again for Nupes, 658 votes (out of nearly 45,000 cast).
No jealous however, representatives of the majority have also seen the deputation slip through the fingers of almost nothing, like Brigitte Bourguignon, future ex-Minister of Health, eliminated with 56 votes behind her rival RN in Pas- de-Calais, Roxana Maracineanu, former Minister of Sports, beaten in Val-de-Marne by 177 votes by Rachel Keke, new figure of the left bloc, Patrick Mignola, defeated by 604 votes in Savoie ,