Esse: UNIS POUR ESSE won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Esse (Charente, INSEE 16131) has 383 registered voters. Its council has 15 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.
- 383registered voters
- 75%turnout, 2026 round one
- 34.2%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 286 voted, 233 valid votes
- UNIS POUR ESSENo label (small commune) 100.0% · 233 · 15 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 Esse
Esse is a commune in Charente with 383 registered voters, the 160th largest of the département's 359 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 74.7% of them voted, more than the 57.7% across Charente, and UNIS POUR ESSE won 15 of the council's 15 seats in the first round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 32%, National Rally 22.8%, France Unbowed 15.5%. France Unbowed did 6 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 34.2%, with Raphaël Glucksmann on 19.9%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Esse from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 34.2% · France 34.2%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 19.9% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 17.2% · France 14.3%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 11.2% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 9.7% · France 7.6%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.0% · France 2.0%
- Marine TondelierGreens 1.8% · France 2.9%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 1.7% · France 0.6%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 1.7% · France 3.8%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 0.7% · France 2.1%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 32.0% · National Rally 22.8% · France Unbowed 15.5% · Others 7.3% · Republicans 6.3%. 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 →
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