Sainte-Marie: Céline Sitouze's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Sainte-Marie (La Réunion, INSEE 97418) has 28,365 registered voters. Its council has 39 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.
- 28,365registered voters
- 58%turnout, 2026 round one
- 37.9%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 18,164 voted, 17,696 valid votes
- Céline SITOUZELed by Céline Sitouze · Miscellaneous left 53.5% · 9,470 · 30 seats
- RECONSTRUIRE SAINTE-MARIE ENSEMBLELed by Jean-Louis Lagourgue · Miscellaneous right 24.8% · 4,380 · 5 seats
- POUR L'AMOUR DE SAINTE-MARIELed by Richard Nirlo · Miscellaneous right 21.7% · 3,846 · 4 seats
Round one, 15 March · 16,335 voted, 15,817 valid votes
- Céline SITOUZEMiscellaneous left 33.4% · 5,279
- RECONSTRUIRE SAINTE-MARIE ENSEMBLEMiscellaneous right 25.6% · 4,055
- POUR L'AMOUR DE SAINTE-MARIEMiscellaneous right 25.0% · 3,955
- AGIR AUTREMENTSocialist 6.7% · 1,063
- SAINTE-MARIE RASSEMBLÉERassemblement National 4.7% · 749
- ENSEMBLE, REVEILLONS SAINTE-MARIESovereigntist 2.5% · 403
- SAINTE-MARIE EN MOUVEMENT POU ZOTMiscellaneous centre 2.0% · 313
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 Sainte-Marie
Sainte-Marie is a commune in La Réunion with 28,365 registered voters, the 10th largest of the département's 24 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 57.6% of them voted, more than the 55.3% across La Réunion, and the list led by Céline Sitouze won 30 of the council's 39 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted France Unbowed 36.6%, National Rally 26.8%, Ensemble (Macron camp) 19.3%. France Unbowed did 15 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 37.9%, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 27.1%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Sainte-Marie from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 37.9% · France 34.2%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 27.1% · France 16.8%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 13.0% · France 13.4%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 9.4% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 5.5% · France 7.6%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 2.3% · France 2.1%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 1.9% · France 3.8%
- Marine TondelierGreens 1.5% · France 2.9%
- Nathalie ArthaudFar left 0.7% · France 0.6%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 0.6% · France 2.0%
In 2022, round one here: France Unbowed 36.6% · National Rally 26.8% · Ensemble (Macron camp) 19.3% · Reconquête 3.8% · Republicans 3.3%. 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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