Bessé: BIEN VIVRE A BESSE won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Bessé (Charente, INSEE 16042) has 106 registered voters. Its council has 11 seats; the 2026 municipal election was settled in the first round on 15 March. The next municipal elections are in 2032; the presidential election is on 18 April 2027.
- 106registered voters
- 74%turnout, 2026 round one
- 33.8%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 78 voted, 61 valid votes
- BIEN VIVRE A BESSENo label (small commune) 100.0% · 61 · 11 seats
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 Bessé
Bessé is a commune in Charente with 106 registered voters, the 323rd largest of the département's 359 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 73.6% of them voted, more than the 57.7% across Charente, and BIEN VIVRE A BESSE won 11 of the council's 11 seats in the first round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 35.7%, National Rally 20.2%, France Unbowed 16.7%. Ensemble (Macron camp) did 8 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 33.8%, with Édouard Philippe on 21.7%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Bessé from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 33.8% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 21.7% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 16.7% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 13.1% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 5.0% · France 7.6%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.3% · France 3.8%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 2.3% · France 0.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 1.6% · France 2.9%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.4% · France 2.1%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.1% · France 2.0%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 35.7% · National Rally 20.2% · France Unbowed 16.7% · Others 8.3% · Reconquête 6.0%. 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 →
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