Balaruc-les-Bains: Christophe Rioust's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Balaruc-les-Bains (Hérault, INSEE 34023) has 6,476 registered voters. Its council has 29 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.
- 6,476registered voters
- 68%turnout, 2026 round one
- 46.3%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 4,493 voted, 4,332 valid votes
- Le choix de l'avenir pour BalarucLed by Christophe Rioust · Miscellaneous left 51.9% · 2,249 · 22 seats
- BALARUC EN CONFIANCELed by Didier Sauvaire · Miscellaneous right 48.1% · 2,083 · 7 seats
Round one, 15 March · 4,396 voted, 4,250 valid votes
- Le choix de l'avenir pour BalarucMiscellaneous left 46.5% · 1,976
- BALARUC EN CONFIANCEMiscellaneous right 33.2% · 1,409
- POUR BALARUCMiscellaneous 20.4% · 865
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 Balaruc-les-Bains
Balaruc-les-Bains is a commune in Hérault with 6,476 registered voters, the 22nd largest of the département's 341 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 67.9% of them voted, more than the 60% across Hérault, and the list led by Christophe Rioust won 22 of the council's 29 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted National Rally 33.7%, Ensemble (Macron camp) 21.3%, France Unbowed 14.8%. National Rally did 10 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 46.3%, with Raphaël Glucksmann on 12.1%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Balaruc-les-Bains from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 46.3% · France 34.2%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 12.1% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 10.4% · France 14.3%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 10.3% · France 16.8%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 7.6% · France 3.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 6.0% · France 7.6%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 3.2% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.4% · France 2.1%
- Marine TondelierGreens 1.4% · France 2.9%
In 2022, round one here: National Rally 33.7% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 21.3% · France Unbowed 14.8% · Reconquête 12.9% · Communist Party 3.7%. 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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