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Bourges: Yann Galut's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027

Bourges (Cher, INSEE 18033) has 43,529 registered voters. Its council has 49 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.

The municipal election, March 2026

Round two, 22 March · 21,034 voted, 20,432 valid votes

  1. Avec Yann GALUT, Bourges pour toutes et tousLed by Yann Galut · Union of the left 53.4% · 10,910 · 38 seats
  2. UNIS, CHANGEONS DE CAPLed by Philippe Mercier · Miscellaneous right 34.3% · 6,998 · 8 seats
  3. Bouger Bourges, avec Ugo IANNUZZILed by Ugo Iannuzzi · Rassemblement National 12.4% · 2,524 · 3 seats

Round one, 15 March · 21,454 voted, 20,768 valid votes

  1. Avec Yann GALUT, Bourges pour toutes et tousUnion of the left 48.0% · 9,963
  2. UNIS, CHANGEONS DE CAPMiscellaneous right 31.3% · 6,492
  3. Bouger Bourges, avec Ugo IANNUZZIRassemblement National 14.9% · 3,098
  4. BOURGES EN COMMUNFrance Unbowed 4.4% · 912
  5. Lutte ouvrière - Le camp des travailleursFar left 1.5% · 303

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 Bourges

Bourges is a commune in Cher with 43,529 registered voters, the largest of the département's 285 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 49.3% of them voted, fewer than the 55.7% across Cher, and the list led by Yann Galut won 38 of the council's 49 seats after a second round.

In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 31%, France Unbowed 24%, National Rally 17.7%. National Rally 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 28.9%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 18.2%.

The 2027 presidential election here, round one

Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Bourges from how it voted in 2022.

  1. Marine Le PenNational Rally 28.9% · France 34.2%
  2. Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 18.2% · France 16.8%
  3. Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 17.1% · France 14.3%
  4. Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 15.1% · France 13.4%
  5. Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 8.8% · France 7.6%
  6. Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.7% · France 3.8%
  7. Marine TondelierGreens 2.9% · France 2.9%
  8. Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.6% · France 2.0%
  9. Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.1% · France 2.1%
  10. Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%

In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 31.0% · France Unbowed 24.0% · National Rally 17.7% · Reconquête 6.9% · Republicans 5.4%. 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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