Valence: NICOLAS DARAGON POUR VALENCE NATURELLEMENT won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Valence (Drôme, INSEE 26362) has 40,980 registered voters. Its council has 49 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.
- 40,980registered voters
- 53%turnout, 2026 round one
- 27.4%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 21,652 voted, 21,321 valid votes
- NICOLAS DARAGON POUR VALENCE NATURELLEMENTMiscellaneous right 58.1% · 12,391 · 41 seats
- UNION DE LA GAUCHE ET DES ECOLOGISTES - REUNIR VALENCEUnion of the left 17.8% · 3,800 · 4 seats
- GAUCHE ECOLOGISTE ET POPULAIREFrance Unbowed 12.0% · 2,561 · 3 seats
- Rassemblement ValentinoisRassemblement National 6.8% · 1,451 · 1 seat
- Le choix de ValenceMiscellaneous left 4.2% · 885
- Lutte Ouvrière - Le camp des travailleursFar left 1.1% · 233
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 Valence from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 27.4% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 23.0% · France 16.8%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 14.4% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 14.3% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 8.3% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 4.1% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 4.0% · France 3.8%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.2% · France 2.1%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.9% · France 2.0%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.6% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: France Unbowed 29.3% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 27.1% · National Rally 16.3% · Reconquête 7.3% · Greens 5.9%. 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 →
Communes of a similar size in Drôme
- Montélimar28,230 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Romans-sur-Isère23,166 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Bourg-lès-Valence14,824 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Pierrelatte10,130 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Bourg-de-Péage7,851 voters · Miscellaneous left
- Portes-lès-Valence7,719 voters · Miscellaneous right
- Livron-sur-Drôme7,243 voters · Miscellaneous centre
- Crest7,222 voters · Miscellaneous left