Tours: Emmanuel Denis's list won the town hall in 2026; Jean-Luc Mélenchon would lead here in 2027
Tours (Indre-et-Loire, INSEE 37261) has 86,326 registered voters. Its council has 55 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.
- 86,326registered voters
- 53%turnout, 2026 round one
- 23.8%Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 2027 round one here (France: 16.8%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 45,409 voted, 43,944 valid votes
- Tours inspireLed by Emmanuel Denis · Miscellaneous left 47.2% · 20,741 · 41 seats
- TOURS POUR TOUSLed by Christophe Bouchet · Miscellaneous right 43.9% · 19,275 · 12 seats
- À NOTRE TOURSLed by Aleksandar Nikolic · Rassemblement National 8.9% · 3,928 · 2 seats
Round one, 15 March · 45,342 voted, 44,518 valid votes
- Tours inspireUnion of the left 33.8% · 15,155
- TOURS POUR TOUSMiscellaneous right 23.7% · 10,632
- À NOTRE TOURSRassemblement National 11.6% · 5,206
- Faire Mieux pour ToursFrance Unbowed 11.4% · 5,100
- CHANGEONS TOURS !Miscellaneous centre 9.8% · 4,397
- NATURELLEMENT TOURSHorizons 7.5% · 3,379
- LUTTE OUVRIERE - LE CAMP DES TRAVAILLEURSFar left 1.4% · 605
- TOURS POUR LES TRAVAILLEURS ET LES JEUNESFar left 0.8% · 337
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 Tours
Tours is a commune in Indre-et-Loire with 86,326 registered voters, the largest of the département's 271 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 52.5% of them voted, fewer than the 56.6% across Indre-et-Loire, and the list led by Emmanuel Denis won 41 of the council's 55 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 30.1%, France Unbowed 29.9%, National Rally 13.2%. National Rally did 10 points worse here than across France.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Jean-Luc Mélenchon ahead on 23.8%, with Marine Le Pen on 23.5%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Tours from how it voted in 2022.
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 23.8% · France 16.8%
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 23.5% · France 34.2%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 16.7% · France 14.3%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 15.3% · France 13.4%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 8.4% · France 7.6%
- Marine TondelierGreens 4.4% · France 2.9%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.6% · France 3.8%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 1.9% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.7% · France 2.1%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.7% · France 0.6%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 30.1% · France Unbowed 29.9% · National Rally 13.2% · Reconquête 6.6% · Greens 6.3%. 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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