Bessines: Bessines en mouvement won the town hall in 2026; Édouard Philippe would lead here in 2027
Bessines (Deux-Sèvres, INSEE 79034) has 1,498 registered voters. Its council has 19 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.
- 1,498registered voters
- 66%turnout, 2026 round one
- 26.2%Édouard Philippe, 2027 round one here (France: 14.3%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 984 voted, 964 valid votes
- Bessines en mouvementNo label (small commune) 64.0% · 617 · 16 seats
- Bessines-moi l'avenirNo label (small commune) 36.0% · 347 · 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%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Bessines from how it voted in 2022.
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 26.2% · France 14.3%
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 25.6% · France 34.2%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 17.4% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 11.1% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 7.8% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 5.2% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 2.9% · France 3.8%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.9% · France 2.1%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.2% · France 2.0%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.7% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 43.0% · National Rally 15.2% · France Unbowed 14.9% · Greens 7.4% · Reconquête 5.5%. 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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