Melle: Ryan Lequien's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Melle (Deux-Sèvres, INSEE 79174) has 4,318 registered voters. Its council has 33 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.
- 4,318registered voters
- 67%turnout, 2026 round one
- 32.5%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 3,063 voted, 3,021 valid votes
- MELLE EN COMMUNLed by Ryan Lequien · Miscellaneous centre 52.7% · 1,593 · 26 seats
- Cinq Comm'Une-MelleLed by Sylvain Griffault · Miscellaneous left 40.8% · 1,232 · 6 seats
- VIVONS MELLE ENSEMBLELed by Muriel Sabourin Benelhadj · Miscellaneous left 6.5% · 196 · 1 seat
Round one, 15 March · 2,885 voted, 2,816 valid votes
- MELLE EN COMMUNMiscellaneous centre 49.3% · 1,387
- Cinq Comm'Une-MelleMiscellaneous left 37.3% · 1,051
- VIVONS MELLE ENSEMBLEMiscellaneous left 13.4% · 378
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 Melle from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 32.5% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 20.2% · France 16.8%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 15.9% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 13.7% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 6.7% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 4.0% · France 2.9%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.3% · France 2.0%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 2.0% · France 3.8%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.7% · France 2.1%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 1.0% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: France Unbowed 27.0% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 27.0% · National Rally 21.2% · Greens 6.0% · Republicans 4.0%. 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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