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Bessèges: Christine Roux's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027

Bessèges (Gard, INSEE 30037) has 1,977 registered voters. Its council has 23 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 · 1,202 voted, 1,143 valid votes

  1. AGIR POUR BESSEGESLed by Christine Roux · No label (small commune) 58.3% · 666 · 18 seats
  2. BESSEGES LE MEILLEUR EST A VENIRLed by Herve Fiselle · No label (small commune) 41.7% · 477 · 5 seats

Round one, 15 March · 1,236 voted, 1,198 valid votes

  1. AGIR POUR BESSEGESNo label (small commune) 45.2% · 542
  2. BESSEGES LE MEILLEUR EST A VENIRNo label (small commune) 27.6% · 331
  3. BESSÈGES AUTREMENTNo label (small commune) 19.8% · 237
  4. BESSEGES AU COEURNo label (small commune) 7.3% · 88

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 Bessèges

Bessèges is a commune in Gard with 1,977 registered voters, the 67th largest of the département's 349 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 62.5% of them voted, more than the 59.4% across Gard, and the list led by Christine Roux won 18 of the council's 23 seats after a second round.

In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted National Rally 34.9%, France Unbowed 23.5%, Ensemble (Macron camp) 17.7%. National Rally did 12 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 47.2%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 16.3%.

The 2027 presidential election here, round one

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

  1. Marine Le PenNational Rally 47.2% · France 34.2%
  2. Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 16.3% · France 16.8%
  3. Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 14.0% · France 13.4%
  4. Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 8.5% · France 14.3%
  5. Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 4.0% · France 7.6%
  6. Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.4% · France 3.8%
  7. Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.6% · France 2.0%
  8. Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.2% · France 2.1%
  9. Marine TondelierGreens 1.3% · France 2.9%

In 2022, round one here: National Rally 34.9% · France Unbowed 23.5% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 17.7% · Reconquête 6.9% · Others 4.1%. 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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