Nice: Eric Ciotti's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Nice (Alpes-Maritimes, INSEE 06088) has 229,111 registered voters. Its council has 69 seats; the 2026 municipal election went to a second round on 22 March. The next municipal elections are in 2032; the presidential election is on 18 April 2027.
- 229,111registered voters
- 54%turnout, 2026 round one
- 34.8%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 128,118 voted, 125,688 valid votes
- LE MEILLEUR EST A VENIR AVEC ERIC CIOTTILed by Eric Ciotti · Union of the far right 48.5% · 61,009 · 52 seats
- Tous pour NiceLed by Christian Estrosi · Union of the right 37.2% · 46,753 · 13 seats
- UNIS POUR NICELed by Juliette Chesnel-Le Roux · Union of the left 14.3% · 17,926 · 4 seats
Round one, 15 March · 122,750 voted, 120,351 valid votes
- LE MEILLEUR EST A VENIR AVEC ERIC CIOTTIUnion of the far right 43.4% · 52,274
- Tous pour NiceUnion of the right 30.9% · 37,214
- UNIS POUR NICEUnion of the left 11.9% · 14,356
- NICE FRONT POPULAIREFrance Unbowed 8.9% · 10,767
- NICE DEMOCRATIE DIRECTEMiscellaneous 2.2% · 2,690
- A LA RECONQUETE DE NICEReconquête 1.9% · 2,238
- Lutte ouvrière - Le camp des travailleursFar left 0.7% · 812
Official results, Ministère de l'Intérieur. Lists are labelled with the ministry's political "nuance"; lists in small communes carry none. The list that comes first takes half the seats as a bonus, and the rest are shared in proportion among lists over 5%.
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About Nice
Nice is a commune in Alpes-Maritimes with 229,111 registered voters, the largest of the département's 163 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 53.6% of them voted, close to the 55.3% across Alpes-Maritimes, and the list led by Eric Ciotti won 52 of the council's 69 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 25.2%, National Rally 22.4%, France Unbowed 21.4%. Reconquête did 7 points better here than across France.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Marine Le Pen ahead on 34.8%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 15.9%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Nice from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 34.8% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 15.9% · France 16.8%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 13.1% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 11.9% · France 13.4%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 9.2% · France 3.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 8.4% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 2.7% · France 2.9%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.1% · France 2.1%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.5% · France 2.0%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 25.2% · National Rally 22.4% · France Unbowed 21.4% · Reconquête 14.3% · Republicans 5.1%. Each political family moves by its national change since 2022 (half uniform, half proportional), scaled so that every commune adds up to our national forecast. The national forecast →
Communes of a similar size in Alpes-Maritimes
- Antibes53,827 voters · Union of the right
- Cannes52,779 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Cagnes-sur-Mer35,926 voters · Union of the far right
- Grasse35,310 voters · Les Républicains
- Le Cannet29,220 voters · Les Républicains
- Menton23,967 voters · Union of the far right
- Saint-Laurent-du-Var23,190 voters · Union of the right
- Vallauris19,495 voters · Miscellaneous right