Descartes: Ré-unis pour Descartes won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Descartes (Indre-et-Loire, INSEE 37115) has 2,643 registered voters. Its council has 23 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.
- 2,643registered voters
- 49%turnout, 2026 round one
- 42.6%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round one, 15 March · 1,283 voted, 1,030 valid votes
- Ré-unis pour DescartesNo label (small commune) 100.0% · 1,030 · 23 seats
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 Descartes from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 42.6% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 16.5% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 11.4% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 11.0% · France 16.8%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 8.3% · France 7.6%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 3.3% · France 2.1%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 2.6% · France 3.8%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.1% · France 2.0%
- Marine TondelierGreens 1.7% · France 2.9%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.7% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 31.2% · National Rally 29.7% · France Unbowed 15.3% · Republicans 5.3% · Reconquête 5.0%. 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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