Les Essards: UNIS POUR LES ESSARDS won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Les Essards (Charente, INSEE 16130) has 122 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.
- 122registered voters
- 66%turnout, 2026 round one
- 31.2%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 81 voted, 73 valid votes
- UNIS POUR LES ESSARDSNo label (small commune) 100.0% · 73 · 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 Les Essards
Les Essards is a commune in Charente with 122 registered voters, the 301st largest of the département's 359 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 66.4% of them voted, more than the 57.7% across Charente, and UNIS POUR LES ESSARDS 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) 34.4%, National Rally 17.2%, Others 12.9%. France Unbowed did 10 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 31.2%, with Édouard Philippe on 21.7%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Les Essards from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 31.2% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 21.7% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 16.8% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 9.8% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 8.1% · France 7.6%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.8% · France 3.8%
- Marine TondelierGreens 3.0% · France 2.9%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 3.0% · France 0.6%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.6% · France 2.1%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 34.4% · National Rally 17.2% · Others 12.9% · France Unbowed 11.8% · Reconquête 6.5%. 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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