Mende: Patrice Saint-Léger's list won the town hall in 2026; Marine Le Pen would lead here in 2027
Mende (Lozère, INSEE 48095) has 7,984 registered voters. Its council has 33 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.
- 7,984registered voters
- 66%turnout, 2026 round one
- 31.6%Marine Le Pen, 2027 round one here (France: 34.2%)
The municipal election, March 2026
Round two, 22 March · 5,612 voted, 5,450 valid votes
- Choisissons Mende Pour un Nouveau SouffleLed by Patrice Saint-Léger · Miscellaneous right 52.5% · 2,861 · 26 seats
- ENSEMBLE POUR MENDELed by Stéphanie Maurin · Miscellaneous centre 37.2% · 2,028 · 6 seats
- A GAUCHE TOUTES ET TOUSLed by Hermelen Peris · Union of the left 10.3% · 561 · 1 seat
Round one, 15 March · 5,309 voted, 5,125 valid votes
- Choisissons Mende Pour un Nouveau SouffleMiscellaneous right 34.3% · 1,760
- ENSEMBLE POUR MENDEMiscellaneous centre 32.3% · 1,655
- JUSTE MENDEMiscellaneous 21.2% · 1,084
- A GAUCHE TOUTES ET TOUSUnion of the left 12.2% · 626
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 Mende
Mende is a commune in Lozère with 7,984 registered voters, the largest of the département's 151 communes. At the municipal election of March 2026 66.5% of them voted, fewer than the 69.9% across Lozère, and the list led by Patrice Saint-Léger won 26 of the council's 33 seats after a second round.
In the first round of the 2022 presidential election the commune voted Ensemble (Macron camp) 26.8%, France Unbowed 21.2%, National Rally 20.2%. National Rally did 3 points worse here than across France.
Moved to today's national polls, our projection for the 2027 first round here has Marine Le Pen ahead on 31.6%, with Raphaël Glucksmann on 18.6%.
The 2027 presidential election here, round one
Our national forecast for round one, carried down to Mende from how it voted in 2022.
- Marine Le PenNational Rally 31.6% · France 34.2%
- Raphaël GlucksmannSocialists 18.6% · France 13.4%
- Jean-Luc MélenchonFrance Unbowed 15.6% · France 16.8%
- Édouard PhilippeEnsemble (Macron camp) 13.8% · France 14.3%
- Bruno RetailleauRepublicans 9.6% · France 7.6%
- Éric ZemmourReconquête 3.7% · France 3.8%
- Marine TondelierGreens 3.1% · France 2.9%
- Fabien RousselCommunist Party 2.1% · France 2.0%
- Nicolas Dupont-AignanSovereigntists 1.6% · France 2.1%
In 2022, round one here: Ensemble (Macron camp) 26.8% · France Unbowed 21.2% · National Rally 20.2% · Reconquête 7.0% · Republicans 6.1%. 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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