Nîmes: Vincent Bouget's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Nîmes (Gard, INSEE 30189) has 94,331 registered voters. Its council has 59 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.
- 94,331registered voters
- 51%turnout, 2026 round one
- 31.7%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 54,585 voted, 53,692 valid votes
- Nîmes en communLed by Vincent Bouget · Union of the left 41.0% · 21,997 · 42 seats
- FIERS D'ÊTRE NÎMOIS !Led by Julien Sanchez · Rassemblement National 37.5% · 20,145 · 11 seats
- NÎMES PAR-DESSUS TOUTLed by Franck Proust · Union of the right 21.5% · 11,550 · 6 seats
Round one, 15 March · 48,151 voted, 47,425 valid votes
- FIERS D'ÊTRE NÎMOIS !Rassemblement National 30.4% · 14,414
- Nîmes en communUnion of the left 30.0% · 14,251
- TOUT NÎMESUnion of the right 19.5% · 9,270
- L'Avenir NîmoisMiscellaneous right 15.6% · 7,376
- NIMES ÉCOLOGIQUE ET SOLIDAIREFrance Unbowed 4.5% · 2,114
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 Nîmes
Nîmes is a commune in Gard with 94,331 registered voters, the largest of the département's 349 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 51% of them voted, fewer than the 59.4% across Gard, and the list led by Vincent Bouget won 42 of the council's 59 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted France Unbowed 28.7%, Ensemble (Macron camp) 23.2%, National Rally 20.1%. France Unbowed did 7 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 31.7%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 22%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Nîmes from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 31.7% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 22.0% · France 16.8%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 13.6% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 12.0% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 7.4% · France 7.6%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 5.8% · France 3.8%
- Marine TondelierGreens 2.7% · France 2.9%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.6% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.7% · France 2.1%
In 2022, round one here: France Unbowed 28.7% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 23.2% · National Rally 20.1% · Reconquête 9.9% · Republicans 4.4%. 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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