Saint-Palais-sur-Mer: Pierre Bernardaud's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Saint-Palais-sur-Mer (Charente-Maritime, INSEE 17380) has 4,346 registered voters. Its council has 27 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.
- 4,346registered voters
- 69%turnout, 2026 round one
- 33.7%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 3,032 voted, 2,971 valid votes
- Ensemble pour Saint-PalaisLed by Pierre Bernardaud · Miscellaneous right 50.1% · 1,489 · 21 seats
- SAINT-PALAIS AU COEURLed by Fabienne Labarriere · Miscellaneous right 36.3% · 1,079 · 5 seats
- S'engager pour Saint-PalaisLed by Didier Heckel · Rassemblement National 13.6% · 403 · 1 seat
Round one, 15 March · 3,006 voted, 2,960 valid votes
- Ensemble pour Saint-PalaisMiscellaneous right 38.1% · 1,129
- SAINT-PALAIS AU COEURMiscellaneous right 31.9% · 945
- S'engager pour Saint-PalaisRassemblement National 19.5% · 578
- TOUS POUR SAINT PALAISMiscellaneous centre 10.4% · 308
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 Saint-Palais-sur-Mer
Saint-Palais-sur-Mer is a commune in Charente-Maritime with 4,346 registered voters, the 20th largest of the département's 462 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 69.2% of them voted, more than the 58.7% across Charente-Maritime, and the list led by Pierre Bernardaud won 21 of the council's 27 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 37.1%, National Rally 21.7%, Reconquête 10%. France Unbowed did 12 points worse here than across France.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Marine Le Pen ahead on 33.7%, with Édouard Philippe on 21.5%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Saint-Palais-sur-Mer from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 33.7% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 21.5% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 12.6% · France 7.6%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 12.2% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 7.1% · France 16.8%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 5.9% · France 3.8%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.4% · France 2.1%
- Marine TondelierGreens 2.4% · France 2.9%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.7% · France 2.0%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 37.1% · National Rally 21.7% · Reconquête 10.0% · France Unbowed 9.6% · Republicans 8.3%. 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 Charente-Maritime
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- Vaux-sur-Mer4,289 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Fouras4,141 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Saint-Xandre4,636 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Sainte-Soulle4,018 voters · Miscellaneous
- Saint-Georges-d'Oléron3,889 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Puilboreau4,914 voters · Miscellaneous left
- Nieul-sur-Mer4,956 voters · Miscellaneous left