Merpins: ENGAGES POUR MERPINS won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Merpins (Charente, INSEE 16217) has 974 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.
- 974registered voters
- 56%turnout, 2026 round one
- 45.1%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 547 voted, 533 valid votes
- ENGAGES POUR MERPINSNo label (small commune) 50.5% · 269 · 12 seats
- Unis pour MerpinsNo label (small commune) 49.5% · 264 · 3 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 Merpins
Merpins is a commune in Charente with 974 registered voters, the 54th largest of the département's 359 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 56.2% of them voted, close to the 57.7% across Charente, and ENGAGES POUR MERPINS won 12 of the council's 15 seats in the first round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted National Rally 32%, Ensemble (Macron camp) 27.5%, France Unbowed 17.1%. National Rally did 9 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 45.1%, with Édouard Philippe on 13.6%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Merpins from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 45.1% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 13.6% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 12.7% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 12.1% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 5.9% · France 7.6%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 3.5% · France 2.1%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 2.8% · France 3.8%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.8% · France 2.0%
- Marine TondelierGreens 1.6% · France 2.9%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.8% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: National Rally 32.0% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 27.5% · France Unbowed 17.1% · Reconquête 5.5% · Republicans 3.5%. 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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