2024 Legislature: These are the districts that were decided by multiple votes

Sometimes, just a few votes were enough. Although the first round of legislative elections ended Sunday night with a clear victory for the National Rally (29.2 percent of the vote) across the country, the results were still extremely close in many districts.

While some candidates, such as Paris First Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire, owe their election to a narrow lead, others have their parliamentary ambitions barely contained. The triangles, which have grown dramatically compared to the 2022 legislative elections, are also often the result of very close voting. Overview.

Candidates elected with less than 51% of the votes cast

Less than 1% of the votes cast. It was this narrow margin that allowed a total of 19 candidates to be elected as deputies in the first round of legislative elections this Sunday.

Also in the capital, the candidates of the PNF in the 8th, 10th and 18th constituencies, Eva Sas, Rodrigo Arenas and Aymeric Caron, were elected as deputies with an absolute majority of votes, gaining 50.7%, 50.6% and 50.3% of the votes respectively. In the inner suburbs, in the 11th constituency of Vert-de-Seine, the Insoumis party, Aurélien Senoul, was elected with 50.1% of the votes.

Eight candidates from the National Rally (RN) also benefited from a very narrow advantage and were elected in the first round. Among them are the representative of the Flame party Julien Audoul, re-elected in the 3rd district of Yonne with 50.4% of the votes; the outgoing deputy Laure Lavalette, elected in the 2nd district of Var with 50.8% of the votes; and Florence Goulet, re-elected in the 2nd district of Meuse with 50.6% of the votes cast.

Candidates who failed to win election in the first round

Conversely, 14 candidates came within a whisker of winning the election, winning an absolute majority in the first round, including five candidates from the New Popular Front, eight candidates from the National Rally, and a candidate from various right-wing parties.

On the left side, we note, for example, the result of the outgoing Socialist MP Fatiha Keloua Haci, who reached the second round with 49.3% of the vote; the ecologist Sabrina Sebaihi, who received 49.1% of the vote; or even Insoumis Loïc Prudhomme, who missed out on re-election in the first round with 49.8% of the vote.

As for the RN, Marine Le Pen’s former deputy campaign director, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, failed to secure a seat in the National Assembly after winning 49.6% of the vote in the 4th constituency of the Somme.

Hélène Laporte (2nd constituency Lot-et-Garonne), Marine Gamlet (2nd constituency Tarn-et-Garonne) and Christophe Bart (1st constituency Aude) also did not get far: 49.3%, 49.1% and 49.3%, respectively, of the votes cast in the first round.

The duel of candidates divided by less than 1% of the votes

An extremely narrow gap. In eight French constituencies, the candidates who made it to the second round of legislative elections were divided by less than 1% of the vote. Among the latter, six lead to a duel with the National Rally candidate, and two to a duel between the New Popular Front and the outgoing presidential majority.

In the 1st electoral district of Loir-et-Cher, candidate Marine Bardet (RN) with 35.2% of the vote, for example, beat Minister of Agriculture Marc Fenot (ENS) with 34.5% by 348 votes. In Vendée, in the 3rd electoral district, the candidate of the LR/RN alliance Erica Ciotti Pascal Dubin (35.6%) is in first place against Stéphane Bouchoud (34.9%) of the outgoing majority, thanks to a small margin of 656 votes.

On the other hand, the diverse candidate of the center, Jean-Luc Warsmann, has bucked the trend in the 3rd Ardennes district, having already received only 66 votes. He is in first place with 43.5% of the vote against the RN candidate Isabelle Roger and her 43.3%.

The French abroad did not support the National Rally. In the 3rd district, Charlotte Minvielle (NFP) with 39.2% of the votes is 63 votes ahead of candidate Vincent Cora (ENS) with 39.1%. In the 10th district, the candidate of the Union of the Left, Elsa Di Meo (32.5%), is again in first place against the candidate of the outgoing majority, Amelia Lacrafi (31.8%). This time up to 253 ballots.

Triangles in which candidates are separated by less than 1% of the vote.

This Sunday, historic participation in the vote led to many triangles and once again to very close results. Thus, two of the three candidates who made it to the second round were separated by less than 1% of the vote in no fewer than 48 French constituencies.

In the 4th district of Maine-et-Loire, the RN candidate Aurore Laondes with 34.9% of the vote is ahead of the outgoing deputy Laetitia Saint-Paul (ENS) with 34.87% of the vote by just 13 ballots. In third place with 20.5% of the vote, Charlene Bouvet of the Union of the Left withdrew her candidacy on behalf of the Republican Front.

In the 1st electoral district of Loiret, the situation is almost identical. In the latter case, the outgoing member of the majority, Stéphanie Rist, is ahead of Ghislain Kunowski, the Socialist candidate of the NFP, by only 69 votes, while the RN candidate, Tiffany Rabaud, is third with 28% of the votes. The votes have been cast. Once again, the Socialist candidate will withdraw in favor of the Ensemble candidate.

Finally, we note the situation in the 7th constituency of Finistère, where Insumise Jagdeep Harvinder, invested by the New Popular Front, is only 243 votes ahead of Liliana Tanguy, the candidate of the outgoing majority, with 31.06% of the votes against. at 30.66%. Annick Alanou, nominated by the RN, is in third place with 26.1% of the votes, but the candidate of the Ensemble has already declared that she will not abandon the elections in favor of the left-wing trade union.